Many regions are “stubbornly highly concentrated” when it comes to commercial health coverage, according to a new analysis from the American Medical Association (AMA). The AMA released its annual look at concentration in commercial insurance markets Tuesday, in which it found that 95% of metropolitan statistical area-level markets were highly concentrated per federal standards in both 2014 and 2023. The study examined 382 MSAs across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The number of markets that were highly concentrated has consistently been between 95% and 96% over the past decade, the AMA found.
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