How Many Health Insurance Companies Are There In Tennessee? 
The major health insurance options in Tennessee are Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennessee , AETNA , Assurant Health/John Alden , CIGNA , Humana , StarMark and United Healthcare . These are the major players in both the group and individual health insurance markets . For 2014 they were joined by the Tennessee Health Co-op which is an organization created under a grant from the Federal government to provide an additional option in the government health insurance marketplace . There are a couple of third party administered health insurance products whose policies may be underwritten by Nippon Life or some other insurance company but they represent a very small segment of the marketplace . 