This Year, Small and Mid-Sized Insurers May Combine to Survive
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Jan 03, 2025
The year 2025 is unlikely to bring any big mergers and acquisitions (M&A) action between the major insurers, experts predict. But small and mid-sized companies might seek such deals between each other — or try to catch the eye of a major player for a deal.
The reason for this is that the smaller players don’t have as much money to invest in capabilities such as patient analytics — capabilities the major insurers are using to surge further ahead, says Michael Abrams, managing partner at consulting firm Numerof & Associates. “They’re in somewhat of a bind because… the big insurance companies add capabilities…that enable them to zero in on patients with chronic diseases or borderline conditions that need special attention to manage them in an ongoing way,” he tells AIS Health, a division of MMIT. “Small to mid-sized insurance companies don’t have money to invest.”
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