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Reflects the estimated amount of after-tax loss from the specified contingency as of the balance sheet date.

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Percent of Medicare Advantage customers in a 4 Star or greater plan per CMS Medicare Star Quality ratings.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount of loss contingency liability.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=25496072&loc=d3e14326-108349

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Amount charged against operating income increasing loss contingency liability, after adjustments to reduce previously estimated charges.

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