Highline: Health Profits Lag Behind Revenue

U.S. health insurers found that revenue increased faster than net income in 2007.

Researchers at Highline Data, Cambridge, Mass., a unit of Summit Business Media L.L.C., New York, have reported that finding in an analysis of the data that 110 health industry groups and 354 non-affiliated insurers have reported to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Kansas City, Mo., and the California Department of Managed Health Care.

Revenue at the health insurers increased 8.7%, to about $405 billion, and net investment income increased 8.5%, to $6.3 billion.

The number of members rose 5.4%, to 212 million.