{"id":64597,"date":"2025-12-18T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64597\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T21:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:00:09","slug":"highmark-health-swings-to-69m-loss-as-insurance-pressures-offset-hospital-gains-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64597\/","title":{"rendered":"Highmark Health swings to $69M loss as insurance pressures offset hospital gains \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/highmark-health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highmark Health<\/a> posted a $69 million net loss in the first nine months of 2025, buffeted by challenges across the board in the insurance industry but buoyed by a third straight quarter of positive earnings at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/allegheny-health-network\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Allegheny Health Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh-based nonprofit tallied $24.6 billion in revenue through Sept. 30, up from $22.1 billion in the first three quarters of 2024. But it swung to an operating loss of $204 million compared to $273 million in operating gain and $529 million in net income the previous year. Highmark Health Plans had $18.7 billion in revenue and an operating loss of $211 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The financials come at a time when Highmark Health is expanding, both on the provider and insurance side. In October, it announced it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/heritage-valley-health-system-allegheny-health.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would bring Heritage Valley Health System into Allegheny Health Network<\/a>some time in 2026. December brought word that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/11\/highmark-inc-blue-kc-affiliation.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Highmark would affiliate with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City, which would bring in 1 million members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/highmark-health-2025-quarterly.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/highmark-health-2025-quarterly.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/man-found-shot-dead-when-pittsburgh-police-respond-home-woman-who-was-assaulted\/MXXDWMF5VZAVDGTBKVPUTYCWLY\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Man found shot dead when Pittsburgh police respond to home for woman who was assaulted<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/trending\/cessna-business-jet-crashes-north-carolina-airport\/5CS53Y4LDJDJFIKN7RPR73FYAM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6 on board Cessna that crashed in North Carolina; NASCAR\u2019s Greg Biffle said to own plane<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/11-investigates-gets-more-results-pittsburgh-families-living-without-heat\/KOQX7SVUVFDPTO26RNJKM7EKX4\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11 Investigates gets more results for Pittsburgh families living without heat<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/station\/attention-verizon-fios-customers-you-could-lose-access-wpxi-tv\/RDWO7VMUKRHCJNB2S7UXZ2HZFM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Verizon\/Fios Blocks Viewers Access to WPXI-TV 11<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/massive-fire-rips-through-home-fox-chapel\/7X7HTNR2XBA7HNR77GV5G6GIRM\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Massive fire rips through home in Fox Chapel<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Highmark Health posted a $69 million net loss in the first nine months of 2025, buffeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[34423,34422,2263,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-64597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-gains","tag-highmark-health","tag-insurance","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}