Elevance Health’s MLR Beat Encourages Worried Wall Street

Apr 25
Apr 25, 2025

While UnitedHealth Group’s disappointing first-quarter earnings cast a pall over the managed care sector, analysts appeared to breathe a sigh of relief after Elevance Health, Inc. reported its results on April 22.

However, anticipated member attrition in the company’s Affordable Care Act business did raise some eyebrows, and one analyst noted that investor concern regarding high Medicare Advantage costs “still lingers.”
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Leslie Small

Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.