On the Record · UnitedHealth
UnitedHealth competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name UnitedHealth as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who UnitedHealth names
UnitedHealth’s annual reports for 2022 to 2025 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names UnitedHealth
Companies whose own annual reports name UnitedHealth as a competitor.
Word for word“The Health Services segment has a significant number of competitors offering PBM services, including large, national PBM companies (e.g., Prime Therapeutics and MedImpact), PBMs owned by large national health plans (e.g., the Express Scripts business of Cigna Corporation and the Optum Rx business of UnitedHealth Group) and smaller standalone PBMs.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our competitors in our Health Care business include, among others, UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, Anthem, Inc., Humana Inc., Cigna Corporation, WellCare Health Plans, Inc., Centene Corporation, Molina Healthcare, Inc., Kaiser Permanente, health system owned health plans and new entrants into the marketplace, and numerous for-profit and not-for-profit organizations operating under licenses from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“UnitedHealth, Aetna Inc. (owned by CVS), Elevance, Humana and Blue Cross Blue Shield plans compete with us in a variety of products and regions.” 10-K for 2022
Word for word“Our primary competitors in the Medicaid managed care industry include Centene Corporation, CVS Health Corporation, Elevance Health, Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc., and large not-for-profit healthcare organizations.” 10-K for 2025
Read from UnitedHealth’s annual reports (10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023, 10-K for 2022) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-02. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.