Nona Tepper
Nona Tepper reports on the business of health insurance, focusing on earnings, enrollment and how insurer strategies reshape the market. She is a senior reporter on the insurance beat at Modern Healthcare, covering company performance and industry trends for a specialist healthcare business audience. Her coverage combines close reading of financial results with sourcing across insurers, government programs and market analysts.
Health insurance earnings and corporate strategy
Tepper’s core beat is the health insurance industry, where she tracks how payers manage growth, membership and profitability.
She regularly covers company earnings and investor communications, translating financial results into clear narratives about where health plans are gaining or losing ground. Her reporting on Centene’s offer of buyouts amid membership losses is typical of this focus, linking workforce decisions and enrollment trends to the insurer’s broader corporate strategy. She pays attention to how insurers respond to competitive pressure, including restructuring, acquisitions and changes in product mix, and how those moves play through to financial performance.
Her pieces often connect individual company decisions to wider shifts in the insurance market, such as consolidation, new lines of business and changing expectations from employers and government purchasers.
Medicare, Medicaid and ACA coverage shifts
Tepper covers government health programs as a central part of the insurance beat, with particular attention to Medicare, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans.
She invites and reports on company news tied to these programs, treating them as key drivers of growth and risk for national and regional insurers. Her participation in Modern Healthcare’s coverage of shifts in Medicaid enrollment shows how she follows redeterminations, eligibility changes and churn, and explains their impact on health systems and insurers. In this line of work she looks closely at enrollment numbers, product offerings and payer strategies to retain or replace members as policy and economic conditions change.
She uses these stories to show how government programs and exchange plans shape the business prospects of insurers and the stability of coverage in the broader market.
Trend-spotting and investigative, data-driven reporting
Across her work Tepper is known for trend-spotting and investigative reporting grounded in data and documents.
She has experience as a reporter and editor at local and industry outlets, and her bylines have appeared at national publications including The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine, VICE, MarketWatch, Slate and Crain’s Chicago Business, which informs her approach to depth and sourcing. Her reporting has been recognized for innovative use of public records, including creative application of freedom of information laws in her work.
On the insurance beat she brings that mindset to regulatory filings, financial statements and internal documents, using them to test company claims and uncover the practical consequences of insurer decisions. She works across formats, contributing breaking news, enterprise and trend pieces, and engages with audiences through Modern Healthcare’s multimedia efforts on insurance and finance topics.
Taken together, Tepper’s body of work reflects a reporter who pairs close attention to insurer numbers with a willingness to dig into data and records to explain what those numbers mean for the health insurance landscape.
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