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SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2023
Accounting Policies [Abstract] |
Schedule of Health Care Cost Payments and Reimbursements | We account for these subsidies and discounts as a deposit in our consolidated balance sheets and as a financing activity under receipts (withdrawals) from contract deposits, net in our consolidated statements of cash flows.
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021 |
| (in millions) |
Part D subsidy/discount payments | $ | (17,582) |  |  | $ | (16,530) |  |  | $ | (14,889) |  |
Part D subsidy/discount reimbursements | 18,353 |  |  | 18,498 |  |  | 14,628 |  |
Net reimbursements (payments) | $ | 771 |  |  | $ | 1,968 |  |  | $ | (261) |  |
We account for the payments of the federal government’s claims and the related reimbursements under deposit accounting in our consolidated balance sheets and as a financing activity under receipts (withdrawals) from contract deposits, net in our consolidated statements of cash flows.
| 2023 |  | 2022 |  | 2021
| (in millions)
Health care cost payments | $ | (7,073) |  |  | $ | (7,110) |  |  | $ | (6,943) |
Health care cost reimbursements | 7,130 |  |  | 7,135 |  |  | 6,898 |
Net reimbursements (payments) | $ | 57 |  |  | $ | 25 |  |  | $ | (45) |

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