Anthem

Also issues coverage under Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Anthem BCBS, Wellpoint, Simply Healthcare, MMM.

Scale

Figures this payer discloses about itself, each on the basis it states and as of the date it states. The bases differ between payers and are reproduced rather than reconciled.

Covered lives

44.9 M

medical members through our affiliated health plans, as of 2026-06-301

Jurisdictions

states in which it is licensed to conduct insurance operations through its subsidiaries, as of 2026-06-301

Premium revenue

$164.6 B

premiums, as of 2025-12-31 (fiscal year 2025)2

Transparency in Coverage publishing

What this payer publishes under the Transparency in Coverage rule, how the published index is arranged, and what becomes of earlier months. Each statement is read from a public document and cites it.

Posting cadence: On its principal Transparency in Coverage page, states that the machine-readable file information is updated monthly, and that the data is subject to change before the next monthly file update. No day-of-month commitment is published there. A separate Colorado machine-readable file page, published under Colorado state law rather than the federal regulation, instead states that the information is updated twice a year.3 4
Index shape: Describes a Table of Contents as a CMS-approved schema approach that combines the in-network rate and out-of-network files and references the locations (URLs) from which those files can be downloaded, presented as a list of all machine-readable files and associated URLs published. A search by Employer Identification Number, or by organization name, displays the machine-readable file URLs for that employer, spanning in-network negotiated rate, out-of-network allowed amount and out-of-area rate files.5

Sources

[1] Elevance Health, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2026 · Elevance Health, Inc. (filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR CIK 0001156039) · checked 2026-08-06
Fetched the full primary filing document from SEC EDGAR on 2026-08-06 with a declared User-Agent. This is the most recent periodic report on file as of 2026-08-06 (accession 0001156039-26-000060, filing date 2026-07-15, confirmed via data.sec.gov submissions API). Membership quote from the Business overview / MD&A Membership section; membership table row "Total Medical Membership 44,949 45,621" corroborates the 44.9 million figure.
[2] Elevance Health, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 · Elevance Health, Inc. (filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR CIK 0001156039) · checked 2026-08-06
Fetched the full primary filing document from SEC EDGAR on 2026-08-06 with a declared User-Agent (SEC returns HTTP 403 to generic fetchers). Filing date 2026-02-06 confirmed against https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001156039.json (accession 0001156039-26-000013). Quotes taken from Item 1 Business, Item 1A Risk Factors, Item 7 MD&A and the Consolidated Statements of Income.
[3] Machine Readable Files · Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. · checked 2026-08-07
Fetched 2026-08-07. Anthem's machine-readable files landing page, server-rendered, though about 460 KB of navigation chrome wraps roughly 2 KB of content. It carries both sentences cited to it: "This information will be updated monthly." and the sentence identifying the files by Employer Identification Number and HIOS id. No publication date appears anywhere on it, so publishedDate is omitted rather than guessed.
[4] Machine Readable Files (Anthem Colorado — Colorado Division of Insurance disclosure) · Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. (Colorado) · checked 2026-08-07
Fetched 2026-08-07. Anthem's Colorado machine-readable files page, published under Colorado statute and Division of Insurance guidance rather than the federal rule. It contradicts itself in its own published prose: "This information will be updated twice a year." is followed two sentences later by "before the next monthly file update", an unedited leftover from the federal template. The first sentence is the operative commitment, and the seeded cadence claim follows it.
[5] Machine Readable Files — file search and Table of Contents · Anthem Insurance Companies, Inc. / Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield · checked 2026-08-07
Fetched 2026-08-07. The file-search page reached from Anthem's machine-readable files landing page, and the place where the Table of Contents is described rather than the landing page itself. Its form offers search by Employer Identification Number and by organisation name alike.

Reviewed 2026-08-07

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