Health insurers’ market preview: When agents, brokers can expect Q3 earnings
Commercial plans may have trouble getting much attention during the new earnings release season.
Health insurers and other benefits players are about to talk about what’s really going on the there.
Benefits players that sell stock to the public are preparing to post earnings for the third quarter.
Agents, brokers and others can listen to the earnings calls for free. Company executives are sometimes more candid with the analysts than they are in other settings.
The Medicare plan annual enrollment period is set to run from Oct. 15 through Dec. 7.
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Here’s a look when United Health and other key benefits players will show how they did during the three-month period ending Sept. 30.
Oct: 15
Oct. 17
Oct. 24
Oct` 30
Oct. 31
Nov. 4
Nov. 5
Nov. 6
Commercial health: Company executives might give details about benefits market trends, but they might not.
In recent years, executives at the health insurers, especially, have focused on Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Executives from Aflac, Unum and Voya tend to give more details about the benefits market than the health insurers do.
Stop-loss: Another highlight of the earnings call season could be what Prudential Financial says about its new stop-loss business.
The business will sell insurance for employers’ self-insured health and disability plans.
After the second quarter, a Sun Life Financial threw a little polite shade at stop-loss competitors who were complaining about an increase in claim costs.