Becker's Healthcare February 3, 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. 3 and will continue to be updated this year.

  1. Highmark Health laid off 208 employees in Pennsylvania and New York in January at its subsidiary enGen.
  2. GuideWell, the parent company of Florida Blue, is laying off 3% of its workforce across 29 states.
  3. Arkansas BCBS will lay off about 75 employees, or around 2% of the company’s workforce, by March 21....

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