What are the top five health insurers in the Chattanooga area?

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

photo Aerial photo of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee headquarters in Chattanooga.

Just over 60 percent of Chattanooga-area residents responding to a Scarborough Research study last year indicated that they got health insurance through a group plan. The biggest insurers with group plans in the Chattanooga market:

1 BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, 229,452 area subscribers

2 Cigna, 81,331 area subscribers

3 United Healthcare, 51,647 area subscribers

4 Aetna, 16,421 area subscribers

5 State Farm, 4,745 area subscribers

Those who identified other group health plans totaled 79,138, and another 291,421 had no group insurance plan identified.

Source: Scarborough Research, surveys October 2010 to September 2011, for population area of 735,410 people.