Health plans enroll 50,656,907 beneficiaries in May 2023

Registered health plans 50.656907 beneficiaries In May 2023, as reported ANS (National Agency for Complementary Health) This Wednesday (July 5, 2023). The figure represented an increase of 2.4% compared to the same month last year. The coverage rate for the period was 26.11%.

For the month of April this year, the change in the number of recipients was 0.13%. In the previous month, the health sector reached the largest number of users (50,573,160) since November 2014. The data is presented in the ANS panel. click here to reach. Here it is full From the press release (463 KB).

According to the agency, medical hospital packages added 67,243 new users in the same period in May this year.

Health plans that cater exclusively to dentistry had 31,073,737 users in the same period.

The increase reached 2,300,634 beneficiaries for the month of 2022, and 193,525 beneficiaries from April to May of this year.

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“It is important to stress that figures may be subject to retrospective changes due to monthly reviews by operators.”reported the APS.

In all, Brazil’s health sector has 20,084 active health plans (medical and dental only) and 710 active operators, according to July 2023 data.

Read below the number of beneficiaries by type of contract. Click the column headings to rearrange:

In the first half of this year, the complementary health segment recorded a net profit of R$968 million. The result was affected by the record wage that operators received with financial investments. Operating results Medical hospital operators – the main segment of the sector – ended the first quarter with a deficit of R$1.7 billion.

States

In one year (May 2022 to May of this year), 24 of the 27 Federal Units (UFs) saw an increase in the number of Medicaid recipients. In addition, 26 states reported growth in dental-only health plan users.

In that period, São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro were the three states that registered the most positive change in absolute numbers. Here are the numbers for May of this year.