Near-term / Data disclosure
Publish complete state insurer-share tables
Release insurer identities, enrollment shares, common-control links, denominator rules, suppression flags, and reproducible HHI calculations for every jurisdiction under stable identifiers.Source records1report custody
Linked markets1analytical context
Research themes2publication taxonomy
Evidence needs5future verification inputs
The source boundary stays visible from analysis to proposed action.
State Individual Insurance Concentration, 2024
Individual-insurance oversight should use the 2024 state concentration cross-section to prioritize disclosure and research, then connect structure to insurer identity, ownership, entry, plan design, networks, prices, quality, switching, and consumer outcomes before assigning cause or legal liability.
- Intended audience
- HHS, CMS, FTC, DOJ, Congress, state insurance regulators, state attorneys general, and competition researchers
- Policy priority
- Near-term
- Instrument
- Data disclosure
- Publication
- AR-RB-2026-07 / version 1.0
- Canonical citation
- Antitrust Radar Research Team. (2026, July 24). State Individual Insurance Concentration, 2024: Highly concentrated readings appear in 36 of 51 jurisdictions. Competition Research Briefs, AR-RB-2026-07 (Version 1.0). Antitrust Radar. https://antitrustradar.org/reports/state-individual-insurance-concentration-2024
Inputs required to investigate the recommendation and its effects.
- 01State insurer identities, enrollment shares, and common control
- 02Stable plan, issuer, service-area, and jurisdiction identifiers
- 03Annual entry, exit, merger, exchange, ownership, and revision histories
- 04Premium, actuarial value, claims, denial, network, quality, and switching outcomes
- 05Separate product definitions and denominators across insurance systems