The Workforce AI Index · Healthcare
Elevance Health (ELV)
Health benefits and services by description. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-06. Ranked 3 of the 27 Healthcare companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states the total and the U.S. split and nothing by business, so the benefits, care and technology patterns follow its description.
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: 35% now, 54% at the end of 2027, 62% at the end of 2028, 65% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 65% desk work, 25% people work and 10% 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 35% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 54% 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
97,100 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). 71,900 of 97,100 in the United States and 25,200 internationally; 99% employed full-time.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our employee population, including all full-time, part-time and temporary workers, consisted of approximately 97,100 individuals, 71,900 in the United States and 25,200 internationally.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Insurance Carriers | 70% | By (c): the filing states the total and the U.S. split but no headcount by business, and describes health benefits plans as its core business, so the largest share is read into the insurance carriers pattern by description. |
| Ambulatory Health Care Services | 20% | By (c): its health services businesses, care delivery, pharmacy and behavioral health, are described without a headcount, so a share is read into the ambulatory care subsector by description. |
| Computer Systems Design and Related Services | 10% | By (c): the 25,200 international employees and the technology and services operations the filing describes have no stated split, so a share is read into the computer systems design pattern by description. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 97,100 including full-time, part-time and temporary workers; 99% full-time at 33 hours a week or more. The collector's first headcount reading (5,000) came from a customer-segment definition; the human capital section states 97,100.
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
- 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
- Centene Corp. (CNC, 61,100 employees)37% now, 68% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
14 sentences in the filing name AI. AI is named in the human capital section among its development offerings and in the privacy and regulatory risk discussion, where new rules on AI and privacy are described.
- “These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: trends in healthcare costs and utilization rates; reduced enrollment; our ability to secure and implement sufficient premium rates; the impact of large scale medical emergencies, such as public health epidemics and pandemics, and other catastrophes; the impact of new or changes in existing federal, state and international laws or re...”
- “To inspire a high-performance culture, promote talent excellence and accelerate growth and innovation, we offer individual, career and leadership development opportunities (including a focus on the responsible adoption and use of AI and other technologies), encouraging associates to continually learn, grow and expand their skill sets.”
- “Regulators are also imposing new and greater monetary fines or penalties for privacy violations, and jurisdictions where we operate have passed, and continue to propose, data privacy legislation and/or regulations related to Artificial Intelligence ("AI").”
- “Our information systems require an ongoing investment, commitment of significant resources to maintain, integrate, upgrade, enhance and expand existing systems, and development of new systems, including systems powered by or incorporating AI and machine learning (including generative AI), to keep pace with continuing changes in information processing technology, emerging cybersecurity risks, ch...”
- “Failure to adequately implement, consolidate, integrate, streamline, maintain and upgrade effective and efficient information systems, including those powered by or incorporating AI, with sufficiently advanced technological capabilities could result in investigations, audits, fines and penalties, competitive and cost disadvantages to us compared to our competitors, contractual damages, and dive...”
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 | 97,100 | 2026-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 104,200 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 104,900 | 2024-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 102,300 | 2023-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 98,200 | 2022-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 83,400 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 70,600 | 2020-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 63,900 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 56,000 | 2018-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 53,000 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 53,000 | 2016-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 51,500 | 2015-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 48,200 | 2014-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 43,500 | 2013-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 37,700 | 2012-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 37,500 | 2011-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 40,500 | 2010-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 42,900 | 2009-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 41,700 | 2008-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 42,000 | 2007-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 42,000 | 2006-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 38,000 | 2005-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 20,130 | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 19,500 | 2003-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 14,800 | 2002-03-25 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- No headcount by business is stated; all three pattern shares follow the business description (c).
- The collector's first headcount reading was wrong and is corrected here.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001156039-26-000013, 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 Elevance Health's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 35% now and 62% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Elevance Health'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 Elevance Health employ?
- 97,100 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 74% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Elevance Health's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Insurance Carriers; by those patterns the work is about 65% desk work, 25% people work and 10% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Elevance Health's annual report say about AI?
- 14 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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