Becker's Healthcare February 20, 2025
Jakob Emerson

Payers are trimming their workforces and cutting jobs due to financial or operational challenges, along with contract losses.

Below are workforce reduction efforts or job eliminations that were announced or take effect in 2025. Insurance industry layoffs in 2024 are here.

Editor’s Note: This webpage was updated Feb. 20 and will continue to be updated this year.

  1. UnitedHealthcare is offering some employees buyouts if they leave their job by March 3. The company has not confirmed how many employees have received an offer, but on social media employees have said at least 30,000 people were offered a buyout on Feb. 17.

  2. Optum is laying off 71 employees in Basking Ridge, N.J. before April 23. The...

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