“In our Health Care Benefits segment, we now expect full year adjusted operating income of approximately $2.72 billion at the low end of our guidance range, an increase of approximately $300 million reflecting our performance in the third quarter and improved expectations for the remainder of the year.”

In context

“y $2.3 billion of cash at the parent and unrestricted subsidiaries. We continue to meaningfully improve our leverage ratio, supported by our strong year-to-date performance and expect to make further improvement next year as we grow enterprise earnings driven by margin recovery in our Aetna business. Shifting now to our revised outlook for 2025. We are increasing our full year 2025 guidance for adjusted EPS to a range of $6.55 to $6.65, an increase of $0.25. This update reflects our third quarter performance and our revised expectations for the remainder of the year, which continue to maintain a prudent outlook on medical cost trends and macro factors. We now expect full year total revenues of at least $397 billion, an increase of nearly $6 billion driven by increases across all segments. In our Health Care Benefits segment, we now expect full year adjusted operating income of approximately $2.72 billion at the low end of our guidance range, an increase of approximately $300 million reflecting our performance in the third quarter and improved expectations for the remainder of the year. We continue to project our full year 2025 medical benefit ratio at the low end of our Health Care Benefits adjusted operating income guidance range to be approximately 91%. This outlook continues to maintain a thoughtful and prudent view on medical cost trends through the remainder of the year. In our Health Services segment, we now expect full year adjusted operating income of at least $7.1 billion, a decrease of approximately $240 million from our prior guidance. This update reflects our latest expectations for performance that David highlighted in his remarks. Importantly, we continue to make progress evolving our contracting and pricing models to respond and adapt to market dynamics. We are confident we're on the path to lead the evolution with our new TrueCost model, which guarantees”