The Workforce AI Index · Healthcare
Centene Corp. (CNC)
Health insurer, one pattern. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-17. Ranked 1 of the 27 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states approximately 61,100 team members in one managed care business, so one insurance carriers pattern carries the workforce (c).
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 37% now, 59% at the end of 2027, 68% at the end of 2028, 71% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 71% desk work, 25% people work and 4% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 29% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 61% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
61,100 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing describes a U.S. managed care business and gives no count by country.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 61,100 team members.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Insurance Carriers | 100% | By description (c): Medicaid, Marketplace and Medicare health plans, one insurance business, with no count by kind of work. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 61,100 team members, up from 60,500; the majority in remote and hybrid arrangements; the collector found no headcount sentence, and the human capital section's figure is the count.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Insurance Carriers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- UnitedHealth Group (UNH, 390,000 employees)33% now, 54% by 2028
- Elevance Health (ELV, 97,100 employees)35% now, 62% by 2028
- The Progressive Corporation (PGR, 70,000 employees)37% now, 68% by 2028
- Cigna Corporation (CI, 67,700 employees)36% now, 60% by 2028
- Humana Inc. (HUM, 67,060 employees)33% now, 54% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
20 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 20 sentences: AI, machine learning and predictive modeling used to lower costs and advance value-based care, a data science team working to mitigate harmful bias, and AI among its forward-looking factors.
- “You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements, as actual results may differ materially from projections, estimates, or other forward-looking statements due to a variety of important factors, variables and events including, but not limited to: our ability to design and price products that are competitive and/or actuarially sound; our ability to accurately predict and effe...”
- “In connection with these initiatives, we have utilized artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and predictive modeling in ways that lower costs, advance access to value-based care and increase operational efficiencies for each of our employees, members, vendors and provider partners.”
- “We serve a diverse and largely vulnerable member population, and our data science team collaborates closely in the development of the use of AI technology to ensure that the risks of harmful bias are appropriately mitigated.”
- “Importantly, we do not use AI to deny requests for prior authorization.”
- “Changes in healthcare regulations and practices, including due to the OBBBA, the level of utilization of healthcare services, including due to eligibility changes, benefit design, provider or consumer behavior changes, out-of-network utilization and pricing, medical claim submission patterns, including due to the use of artificial intelligence, hospital and pharmaceutical costs, including new h...”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 61,100 | 2026-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 60,500 | 2025-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 67,700 | 2024-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 74,300 | 2023-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 72,500 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 71,300 | 2021-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 56,600 | 2020-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 47,300 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 33,700 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 30,500 | 2017-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 18,200 | 2016-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 13,400 | 2015-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 8,800 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 6,800 | 2013-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 5,300 | 2012-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 4,200 | 2011-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 3,900 | 2010-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 3,600 | 2009-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 3,100 | 2008-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 2,600 | 2007-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 1,800 | 2006-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 1,200 | 2005-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 950 | 2004-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 593 | 2003-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 440 | 2002-03-29 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by kind of work; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001071739-26-000049, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Centene Corp.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 37% now and 68% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Centene Corp.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Centene Corp. employ?
- 61,100 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Centene Corp.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Insurance Carriers; by those patterns the work is about 71% desk work, 25% people work and 4% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Centene Corp.'s annual report say about AI?
- 20 sentences in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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