Number and market share of carriers in the small-group health insurance market. (Private Health Insurance).

U.S. General Accounting Office, March 25, 2002

Editor's note: The authors of the report abridged below surveyed state insurance regulators in order to determine for each state the number of carriers (insurers or managed health care plans that bear the risk for and administer a range of health benefit offerings) licensed in the small-group health insurance market, the largest carriers and their market share.

"The median number of licensed carriers in the small-group market per state was 28, with a range from four in Hawaii to 77 in Indiana, [according to our survey].

* The median market share of the largest carrier was about 33%, with a range from …