HUM Humana Inc

Notice of 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders

By Order of the Board of Directors,

Joseph M. Ruschell

Vice President, Associate General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

March 8, 2023

Table of Contents

Proxy Summary

General Information

How to Vote Your Shares

You may vote if you were a stockholder as of the close of business on February 28, 2023.

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Voting Overview

Board of Directors Nominees

Company Overview

Headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading (2022 Fortune #40 ranking) health and well-being company focused on making it easy for people to achieve their best health with clinical excellence through coordinated care. Our strategy integrates care delivery, the member experience, and clinical and consumer insights to encourage engagement, behavior change, proactive clinical outreach and wellness for the millions of people we serve across the country. As of December 31, 2022, we had approximately 17.1 million members in our medical benefit plans, as well as approximately 5.2 million members in our specialty products.

During December 2022, Humana realigned certain of its businesses among its previously reportable segments, Retail, Group and Specialty and Healthcare Services, into two distinct segments: Insurance and CenterWell. In addition to the new segment classifications being utilized to assess performance and allocate resources, we believe this simpler structure will create greater collaboration across the Insurance and CenterWell businesses and will accelerate work that is underway to centralize and integrate operations within the organization.

Our Strategy

We are committed to addressing the most important health needs of our millions of medical and specialty insurance members and health services patients. Our Insurance segment delivers products that aim to provide affordable, high-quality access to medical, dental, hearing, vision, and prescription drug care to our members. Our CenterWell segment delivers health services to customers from a variety of payors, including Humana, in what we consider the most significant areas of influence for managing chronic conditions and total cost of care. These include primary care, home health, and pharmacy solutions. Together these offerings, underpinned by leading data, analytics, clinical quality, and commercial capabilities, enable us to deliver solutions that promote wellness and advance population health.

The core franchise of our business is Medicare Advantage, which is one of the fastest growing and most attractive segments of healthcare. We aim to sustainably grow that business at or above market growth rates. We plan to achieve this attractive growth rate by leveraging several differentiated capabilities in our Insurance segment, including our leadership in value-based care arrangements, our leading clinical quality as evidenced by our consistently high Stars performance, our first-mover advantage in interoperability, data, and analytics solutions, and our award-winning customer experience. We also have an attractive diversification of insurance offerings across product offerings (medical, dental, vision, hearing, prescription drug), and customer segments (Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, and Military). We also realize that in our complex industry effective partnership is required to meet the needs of our diverse customers. We have a proud history of partnering with multiple stakeholders, including our government partners at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), distribution and channel partners, care delivery providers, technology companies, and retailers to name just a few.

Our CenterWell segment includes health service offerings of significant scale and scope across primary care, home health, and pharmacy solutions. These businesses deliver healthy revenue, profit, and attractive growth rates that benefit from the overall growth of our Insurance segment. These businesses also expand our addressable market by serving patients from multiple health plans and Original Medicare in addition to Humana health plan members. And most importantly, these businesses enable us to participate directly in the areas of highest influence for successful proactive management of disease progression. As a result, we are able to lower avoidable hospital admissions (and readmissions) and lower inappropriate ER utilization while improving NPS and quality scores relative to competitive benchmarks.

While our businesses have attractive revenue, margin, and growth profiles in their own right, the collection of assets we’ve assembled at meaningful scale position us to create a new kind of integrated care delivery with the power to address our customers’ most significant needs that impede simpler health care and better health by (i) making care more predictable, understandable, and affordable, (ii) addressing medical, behavioral, and social needs, and (iii) delivering care whenever and wherever our customers need it. We understand that health care is complicated and navigating the system can be a confusing and daunting task. This is particularly true for vulnerable populations, which tend to over index in the markets we serve. That is one of the principal reasons why Humana continues to enhance its integrated care delivery strategy in key areas to enable a better and more seamless locally delivered health care experience for our members.

We also understand we operate in an increasingly competitive environment, and as such, we are continually focused on better understanding and addressing the unmet needs that matter the most to our customers. We call this delivering “human care.” Human care separates Humana from other traditional healthcare companies, demonstrating that our approach is more caring, personalized, and simple. We do this by (i) listening to our customers, (ii) establishing strong partnerships with trusted individuals who are involved in their care, such as providers and caregivers, (iii) developing technologies and other solutions that offer convenient and easy ways for them to engage with their health, and (iv) leveraging data, analytics, and digital solutions to improve how they engage and interact with us.

Finally, we aim to be responsible stewards of capital with leading return on invested capital (ROIC) driven by sustainable organic growth and strategic M&A. We also plan to continue to innovate with our government partners to advance the Medicare Advantage and Medicaid programs to deliver great outcomes for our members and patients and great value to the taxpayer in one of the finest examples of public/private partnership in the country. And last, and most fundamental to our strategy, is the continual focus on nurturing the culture of the Company and engagement of our associates, which power all of our efforts to deliver the best health and simplest experience possible for the members and patients we are privileged to serve.

Our Performance

Our 2022 financial results reflect strong core performance.

Stockholder Dividends		Cumulative Total Shareholder Return (TSR)

Proposal One

Election of Directors

The Board of Directors of the Company, in accordance with the provisions of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws, has determined that the number of directors to be elected at the Annual Meeting of the Company shall be twelve (12). The directors are elected to hold office until the Annual Meeting of Stockholders in 2024 and until a qualified successor is elected.

Each of the nominees has consented to be named as a nominee and agreed to serve if elected. If any nominee becomes unable to serve for any reason (which is not anticipated), the Shares represented by the proxy granted to Messrs. Hilzinger and Broussard may be voted for the substituted nominee as may be designated by the Board of Directors.

The following table shows certain information concerning the nominees at March 1, 2023.

Vote Required and Recommendation of the Board of Directors

A director nominee will be elected if the number of votes cast for the nominee exceeds the number of votes cast against the nominee. Shares not present at the Annual Meeting and Shares voting “abstain” or broker non-votes have no effect on the election of directors. Under the Company’s Majority Vote Policy, following election to our Board of Directors, a director is required to submit his or her irrevocable resignation to our Board of Directors, conditioned upon (i) the director not achieving the requisite stockholder vote at any future meeting at which they face re-election, and (ii) acceptance of the resignation by the Board of Directors following that election. The Board of Directors has 90 days to determine whether or not to accept the director’s resignation and to report this information to our stockholders.

FOR THE REASONS STATED HEREIN, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDS THAT THE STOCKHOLDERS VOTE FOR ALL NOMINEES.

Director Attributes and Qualifications

The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee (“Committee”) regularly assesses the skills and experiences necessary to ensure that the Board has appropriate skill composition to oversee the Company’s long-term business strategy, operations, and risks. The Committee recognizes that our Board should represent a diverse group of individuals who bring a range of experience, skills and other attributes to their individual role on the Board and to the Board as a collective group. On an annual basis, the Committee assesses each Board candidate to determine whether to recommend currently serving directors for reelection to the Board and whether to recommend candidates for initial election to the Board. In assessing a director nominee, the Committee considers the appropriate balance of experience, skills and other qualifications required for service on our Board, including (i) core attributes that are expected of our directors, and (ii) specific skills, experience or qualifications most closely aligned to our strategic priorities that should be represented collectively on our Board.

Core Director Attributes						Substantive Areas of Expertise
		Independent under our Guidelines, as well as meeting the independence requirements of, as applicable, the NYSE, SEC, IRS;				Public company CEO, CFO or COO experience;
		External public company board service is limited (maximum of three);				Financial oversight (including capital markets experience);
		Risk oversight ability with respect to the particular skills of the individual director;				Corporate governance (including Board of Directors experience, sustainability, and environmental, social and related-governance (ESG));
		Understanding of and experience with complex public companies or like organizations;				Health care industry experience (including clinical practice);
		Standing and reputation in the individual’s field;				Information technology and digital innovation; data privacy; and cybersecurity;
		Ability to work collegially and collaboratively with other directors and our management team;				Marketing and consumer insights (including product design and growth models);
		High integrity and ethical standards; and				Government relations, public policy and regulatory experience; and
		A commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).				Strategy development.

The Committee further assesses each director nominee’s ability to devote sufficient time and effort to his or her duties as a director, his or her willingness to consider all strategic proposals, and any core competencies or technical expertise necessary to staff Board committees. This annual assessment may also incorporate responses, as appropriate, from the Board’s annual individual self-evaluations. More information about the Board self-evaluation process can be found in the section entitled “Board Evaluation Process.” The director nominee analysis also helps to determine whether a nominee would meet the criteria for independence set forth in the Guidelines established by the Board and in accordance with independence requirements of the NYSE and the SEC.

The following matrix summarizes the most significant skills, attributes and experiences represented on our diverse, knowledgeable and experienced Board. More information about each director can be found in the section entitled “Director Nominee Biographies.”

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Board Composition and Refreshment

The Committee and the Board follow a thoughtful refreshment process to ensure the Board composition best reflects the most appropriate mix of skills and experiences to perform strong oversight of the Company’s strategic priorities. The Committee and the Board strive to maintain a balance of tenure on the Board. Longer-serving directors bring valuable experience and a deep understanding of our complex business and industry, along with a historical perspective of our long-term successes, challenges and business cycles, and how these past experiences may inform our current strategy. Newer directors are also critical to the advancement of our strategy, bringing new skills and experiences and contributing fresh perspectives. The Board has established a policy that non-employee directors must retire at the first annual meeting following his or her seventy-third birthday. To encourage director refreshment, there are no exemptions or conditions in this policy.

As further shown below, our Board has undergone significant refreshment in recent years. Since January 2017, ten new directors have been appointed to our Board. Eight of those directors are standing for election this year, all of whom are independent and joined the Board since 2019, deepening the Board’s C-Suite experience, financial expertise, healthcare industry experience, technology expertise, consumer perspective, and public policy expertise while also building on the Board’s focus on diversity.

Regarding diversity, our Company and our Board actively promote and foster a culture of inclusion and diversity to enable an environment where the unique characteristics, backgrounds and beliefs of our teammates can drive the groundbreaking, strategic thinking that gives our Company its competitive edge in a diverse marketplace.

Our Board does not establish specific goals with respect to diversity; rather, the Board’s diversity is a consideration in the overall director nomination process and is a component of the overall assessment of the Board’s composition and effectiveness. Under the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee Charter, the Board has further committed to include, and require any third-party search firm that it engages to include, candidates with diversity of race, ethnicity and gender in the slate of candidates considered by the Committee and/or the Board for nomination to the Board.

The illustrations below depict independence, age, tenure and diversity represented in the current composition of our director nominees.

Identifying Nominees for Directors

The Board has delegated an established screening process for director nominees to the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee, with counsel from our Chairman, our Chief Executive Officer, and outside consultants as appropriate. The goal of the screening process is to assemble a group of potential board members with deep, varied experience, sound judgment, and commitment to the Company’s success.

The Committee receives notice of potential candidates through any of the following avenues: (i) Board self-identification; (ii) third-party recommendations; and (iii) stockholder nominations. While director nominees may be presented to the Board for consideration by the Committee through any of these methods, the Board is ultimately responsible for assessing the needs of the Board, appointing candidates to the Board, and nominating candidates for election by our stockholders at our annual meeting. Once the Committee has compiled its group of suitable candidates and conducted appropriate diligence, it then meets with the Board to review the candidates for further consideration.

Board Self-Identification. The Committee regularly assesses the appropriate size of the Board, the areas of expertise required to effectively contribute to the Board process, and whether any vacancies are anticipated. It also annually assesses the director qualification criteria to ensure the Board has appropriate skill composition aimed at the Company’s long-term business strategy, operations, risks, thought and perspective. As a result, the Committee may recommend to the Board a need for an additional director, Board refreshment for certain requisite skills and qualifications, and/or suggest the replacement of an existing director for other credible reasons.

Third-Party Recommendations. From time to time, the Committee engages a professional third-party search firm to assist the Board of Directors and the Committee in identifying and recruiting candidates for Board membership.

Stockholder Nominees. The policy of the Committee is to consider properly submitted stockholder nominations for candidates for membership on the Board as described above under “Identifying Nominees for Directors.” Stockholder nominations for election to the Board of Directors are governed by specific provisions in our Bylaws, a copy of which is available on our website at www.humana.com. From the www.humana.com website, click on “Investor Relations,” and then click on “Corporate Governance,” and then click on the link entitled, “Bylaws.” The Bylaws require that a stockholder provide written notice of intent to nominate a candidate for director no less than 90 days or more than 120 days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Any stockholder nominations proposed for consideration by the Committee should include, among other information required by the Bylaws, the nominee’s name, qualifications for Board membership and compliance with our Director Resignation Policy discussed in this proxy statement and should be sent to the attention of the Corporate Secretary, Humana Inc., 500 West Main Street, 21st Floor, Louisville, Kentucky 40202.

Board of Directors Nominee Determination

At the recommendation of the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee, the Board has nominated twelve (12) individuals for this year’s election. The Board believes that each director nominee possesses and demonstrates the character, integrity, independence, business judgment and all other requisite skills, qualifications and attributes necessary to effectively (i) act in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders and (ii) exercise active and independent oversight of the of the Company’s management team, business affairs and assets. As a group, the director nominees’ create a diverse, knowledgeable and experienced Board with strong executive experience; financial expertise; knowledge and experience in healthcare; expertise in information systems; protection and digital innovation; and consumer orientation necessary to oversee the Company’s business and the execution of our strategy.

We believe that the current Board members have a deep commitment to the Company’s success, as evidenced by the key qualifications, skills, experiences and diversity of backgrounds of each director described below. The information given in this proxy statement concerning the nominees is based upon statements made or confirmed to the Company by or on behalf of the nominees.

Director Nominee Biographies

Corporate Governance

Humana is committed to having sound corporate governance principles and operates within a comprehensive plan of governance for the purpose of defining responsibilities, setting high standards of professional and personal conduct, and ensuring compliance with such responsibilities and standards. Sound corporate governance is essential to running our business effectively and to maintaining our reputation of integrity in the marketplace. In addition, our Board of Directors has adopted Corporate Governance Guidelines, which we refer to as the Guidelines, intended to comply with the requirements of Section 303A.09 of the NYSE Listed Company Manual. The Guidelines may be viewed on our website at www.humana.com. From the www.humana.com website, click on “Investor Relations,” then click on “Corporate Governance” subcategory and then click on the link entitled “Corporate Governance Guidelines.”

Role of the Board and Board Leadership

Role of the Board

The business of the Company is managed under the direction of the Board, whose members are elected annually by the Company’s stockholders. The basic responsibility of the Board is to lead the Company by exercising its business judgment to act in what each director reasonably believes to be in the best interests of Humana and its stockholders, while engaging in active and independent oversight of the management of the Company’s business affairs and assets. In order to fulfill its responsibilities to the Company’s stockholders, the Board, both directly and through its committees, regularly engages with management to both evaluate the Company’s current operations and encourage the innovations and strategic imperatives that will drive our success in the future. The Board monitors management performance through reviews of the most critical issues facing the Company, including approval of the Company’s strategy and mission, execution of the Company’s financial and operational goals, oversight of risk management, succession planning, and determination of executive compensation. The Board plans for the future by ensuring management focuses on innovation in our strategy to meet the speed of change in our industry and monitoring the Company’s human capital management functions, working closely with the management team to ensure the Company has the correct levels of talent in place – within each business segment – for continued success in present and future states of the Company.

Board Oversight of Risk

While management is responsible for designing and implementing the Company’s risk management process, controls and oversight, the Board, both as a whole and through its committees, has overall responsibility for oversight of the Company’s risk management. The full Board regularly reviews risks that may be material to the Company, including those detailed in the Audit Committee’s reports and as disclosed in the Company’s quarterly and annual reports filed with the SEC. While the Board has established committees designated for various oversight functions, it is common practice for committees to collaborate on overlapping issues.

The Company’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) governance structure consists of oversight from the Board and the Audit Committee (in collaboration with material risks overseen by other committees), and implementation through the Company’s management team utilizing a three lines of defense model to delegate responsibility for critical risk management processes across the business functions and operational areas, as well as risk management, compliance, and internal audit teams.

Humana’s first line of defense consists of business areas and operational teams across the Company, and is responsible for identifying, assessing, mitigating, monitoring, and managing risk within their respective areas. The Company’s Enterprise Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance departments represent the Company’s second line of defense. These teams are led by Humana’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO), to whom the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) each report and lead the Enterprise Risk Management and Regulatory Compliance functions, respectively. Humana’s Internal Audit Consulting Group (IACG) represents the third line of defense, which provides independent and objective assurance to senior management and the Board regarding first and second line risk management functions, internal control systems, and governance processes.

The Board and each Committee receive updates no less than quarterly, with the CRO, CCO, and IACG updating the Audit Committee on the assessment, monitoring and mitigation of risks material to the Company in the short, intermediate, and long-term, the effectiveness of the Company’s control environment in managing these risks, the functioning of the Company’s internal controls and procedures, and the identification and analysis of key emerging risks.

The goal of the Company’s ERM governance is to achieve robust and thoughtful board-level attention to the Company’s risk management process and system, the nature of the material risks faced by the Company, and the adequacy of the Company’s risk management process and system designed to respond to and mitigate these risks, each in a manner that closely aligns to the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures.

Board Leadership

Leadership of the Board is essential to facilitate the Board acting effectively as a working group to the benefit of the Company and its performance. As Chairman of the Board, Mr. Kurt J. Hilzinger assumes key duties to ensure effectiveness and collaboration in all aspects of the Board’s design, operations, and risk oversight function.

The Board believes the advisability of having separate or combined chairman and chief executive officer positions is dependent upon the strengths of the individual or individuals that hold these positions and the most effective means of leveraging these strengths, to lead the Board, set Board agendas, and identify and oversee key rights in light of the challenges and circumstances facing the Company, which may change over time. During a period in which the chairman and chief executive officer positions are combined, a Lead Director is appointed from our independent directors. The Lead Director sets agendas for and convenes meetings and executive sessions of the independent directors, approves Board meeting agendas, and otherwise represents the Board on occasions where it is important for the Board to respond independently from the Company’s management team. Our stockholders would be notified of a combination of the chairman and chief executive officer role promptly upon the Board’s decision to do so.

At this time, given the composition of the Company’s Board, the effective interaction between Mr. Hilzinger, as Chairman, and Mr. Broussard, as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Hilzinger’s status as an independent director and previous service as our Lead Director, and the current challenges faced by the Company, the Board believes that separating the chief executive officer and board chairman positions provides the Company with the right foundation to pursue the Company’s strategic and operational objectives, while maintaining effective independent oversight and objective evaluation of the performance of the Company.

Board Engagement and Undertakings

The Board holds itself to a high standard of engagement, with a hands-on approach that leads to critical insights regarding our customers, operations and business and enhances their level of governance and oversight. An essential component to the Board’s engagement is communicating with the Company’s internal and external stakeholders. To accomplish this, meetings of the Board may be held in key Company markets where, together with management, the Board will personally meet with associates, customers, providers and other stakeholders to gain direct feedback into the Company’s operations, experiences and overall effectiveness. The Board also holds virtual meetings to both increase the efficiency of the Board’s time, and expand its reach of engagement with Company personnel and other stakeholders.

Certain other engagement practices of our Board are described below.

Board Evaluation Practices

The Board is committed to a rigorous self-evaluation process. Through evaluation, directors annually review the performance of the Board and each committee, as well as their own individual contributions, including areas where the Board feels it functions effectively, and most importantly, areas where the Board can improve. The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee, with participation from our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, initiates the annual Board evaluation process. We believe that having a review process for each group helps to (i) ensure an adequate representation of requisite skills; (ii) encourage high levels of engagement from directors; and (iii) strengthen the overall effectiveness of our Board. Results of the evaluations are shared with the Chairman of the Board and the Chairman of the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee and then later discussed with the entire Board in an aggregated manner, with agreed upon actions and improvements then implemented and monitored for effectiveness.

Director Independence

The Guidelines contain standards to assist the Board in its determination of director independence. In addition, to qualify as independent under the Guidelines, the Board of Directors must affirmatively determine that a director has no material relationship with the Company, other than as a director.

Pursuant to the Guidelines, the Board undertakes an annual review of director independence. During this review, the Board considers transactions and relationships between each director or any member of his or her immediate family and the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates, including transactions or relationships that are reported under “Certain Transactions with Management and Others” in this proxy statement. As provided in the Guidelines, the purpose of this review is to determine whether any such transactions or relationships are inconsistent with a determination that a director is independent.

In the course of this review for the current year, the Board specifically analyzed and discussed several matters:

Pfizer. The relationship between the Company and Pfizer includes a negotiated rebate based on the volume of prescriptions of Pfizer drugs obtained by Humana members, which volume includes claims paid by Humana for our members and the co-payments paid by our members. Payments to Humana from Pfizer result from activity with many intermediaries over whom Humana exercises no control (i.e., the providers who prescribe these medications, the distributors who sell to the retailers, and the retailers from which our members get prescriptions). In 2022, the Pfizer rebates amounted to approximately $61.1 million, substantially all of which were passed through to our members in the form of lower premiums and/or higher benefits. The relationship described herein did not represent a direct or indirect material interest for Mr. D’Amelio.

Oracle Health/Cerner. Oracle Health/Cerner has a license subscription contract with our subsidiary, Humana Digital Health and Analytics Platform Services, Inc., or HDH&A. In 2022, Oracle Health/Cerner paid HDH&A approximately $5.8 million in associated licensing, professional service and maintenance fees, which is comparable to other non-affiliated customers for the provision of similar services. Our various CenterWell Home Health^™ companies have certain service arrangements with Oracle Health/Cerner for which it paid approximately $11,320 in associated fees during 2022, which is comparable to other non-affiliated customers for the provision of similar services. The relationships described herein are not material to the Company and do not represent a direct or indirect material interest for Dr. Feinberg.

Howard. The relationship between the Company and Howard includes arrangements between the Howard University healthcare system in which the Company paid approximately $469,013 in medical claims during 2022. The relationships described herein did not represent a direct or indirect material interest for Dr. Frederick.

Chrysalis. In 2022, we contracted for services to be provided by certain companies in Chrysalis’ investment portfolio. In each case, the amounts paid under these arrangements were comparable to those for other non-affiliated vendors, were not material to the Company, and did not represent a direct or indirect material interest for Mr. Jones, Jr.

Warren Barr Liberman. The relationship between the Company and Warren Barr Lieberman includes a provider arrangement in which the Company paid approximately $151,652 in medical claims during 2022. The relationship described herein did not represent a direct or indirect material interest for Mr. McDonald.

Financing Arrangements. Certain of our non-employee directors are partners, shareholders and/or officers of companies that have commercial paper programs or other financing arrangements in which we participate in the ordinary course of business. Payments to or from such companies constituted less than the greater of $200,000 or 1% of each of Humana’s and the recipient’s annual revenue, respectively, in each of the past three years.

At the conclusion of its review for the current year, the Board affirmatively determined that in each case the relationship between the Company or its affiliate and each director-related entity was not material, was below the thresholds for independence prescribed by the NYSE, and did not impact the independence of any of our directors. Directors recused themselves from the independence assessment as the matter was relative to himself or herself. Consistent with these considerations, and based on its review of director independence in light of the standards contained in the Guidelines, the Board determined that each member of the Board of Directors (except Mr. Broussard, as a current employee of the Company) is independent.

Committee Membership and Meetings

The Board of Directors has the following standing committees: Audit; Organization & Compensation; Nominating, Governance & Sustainability; Executive; Technology and Investment. Only directors meeting the applicable SEC and NYSE director independence standards and Internal Revenue Code “outside director” criteria may serve on the Audit Committee, the Organization & Compensation Committee, and the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee. Each standing Board committee operates pursuant to a charter, which may be viewed on our website at www.humana.com. From the www.humana.com website, click on “Investor Relations,” then click on “Corporate Governance,” then click on the “Committee Charters” subcategory. The number of Board committee meetings (virtual and in-person) held in 2022 and membership as of March 1, 2023, were as follows:

Director

Audit

Organization       &       Compensation

Nominating,       Governance &        Sustainability

Executive

Technology

Investment

Kurt J. Hilzinger

Bruce D. Broussard

Raquel C. Bono, M.D.

Frank A. D’Amelio

David T. Feinberg, M.D.

Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D.

John W. Garratt

David A. Jones, Jr.

Karen W. Katz

Marcy S. Klevorn

William J. McDonald

Jorge S. Mesquita

James J. O’Brien

Brad D. Smith1

Number of Meetings in 2022

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8

13

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Audit Committee

Committee Responsibilities

Pursuant to its charter, the Audit Committee:

Corporate Governance Determinations

The Board of Directors has determined that each of the members of the Audit Committee at February 15, 2023 is independent according to SEC and NYSE requirements, and each is financially literate, as defined in the NYSE listing standards. The Board of Directors has determined further that Messrs. D’Amelio and Garratt and Dr. Bono each meet the definition of “audit committee financial expert.” PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, reports directly to the Audit Committee. No member of the Board’s Audit Committee serves on the audit committees of more than three publicly traded companies. The Report of the Audit Committee for the year ended December 31, 2022, is set forth in this proxy statement under the caption “Audit Committee Report.”

Organization & Compensation Committee

Committee Responsibilities

Pursuant to its charter, the Organization & Compensation Committee:

Scope of Authority, Processes and Procedures

The Organization & Compensation Committee acts on behalf of the Board of Directors to establish the compensation of our executive officers and provides oversight of our compensation philosophy, as described in this proxy statement under the caption “Compensation Discussion and Analysis.” The role of the executive officers and the outside compensation consultant in establishing executive compensation is discussed in this proxy statement under the caption “Compensation Discussion and Analysis.” Other than routine administrative matters and the ability of our CEO to approve grants of equity awards subject to certain individual and annual thresholds, no executive compensation decisions are delegated to management.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

No member of the Organization & Compensation Committee: (i) is or has ever been an officer or employee of the Company; or (ii) is or was, during the last fiscal year, a participant in a “related person” transaction requiring disclosure under Item 404 of the SEC’s regulations (see discussion in this proxy statement under the caption “Certain Transactions with Management and Others”); or (iii) is an executive officer of another entity at which one of our executive officers serves either as a director or on its compensation committee.

Corporate Governance Determinations

During 2022, James J. O’Brien (Chair), Wayne A. I. Frederick, M.D., David A. Jones, Jr. and Jorge S. Mesquita served as members of our Organization & Compensation Committee. Considering (i) the source of each director’s compensation, including any consulting, advisory or other compensatory fees paid by the Company; and (ii) whether each director has an affiliate relationship with the Company, a subsidiary of the Company or an affiliate of a subsidiary of the Company, the Board has determined that each member of the Organization & Compensation Committee at February 15, 2023, is independent, as defined by the SEC and the NYSE, and is considered to be an “outside director” under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Compensation Risk Determination

In early 2023, the Organization & Compensation Committee reviewed management’s assessment of the risks associated with the Company’s compensation practices and policies for employees, including a consideration of the counterbalance of risk-taking incentives and risk-mitigating factors in Company practices and policies. Following a review of this assessment, the Organization & Compensation Committee determined that the risks arising from the Company’s compensation practices and policies are not reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on the Company.

Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee

Committee Responsibilities

Pursuant to its charter, the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee:

Executive Committee

Pursuant to its charter, the Executive Committee possesses the authority to exercise all the powers of the Board of Directors except as otherwise provided by Delaware law and our Bylaws during intervals between meetings of the Board. The Executive Committee does not have the power, to, among other things, declare a dividend, issue stock, adopt a certificate of merger or sell substantially all of the Company’s business.

Investment Committee

Pursuant to its charter, the Investment Committee establishes investment objectives and policies for our various investment portfolios and investment options available under various employee benefit plans, reviews investment results, and annually evaluates its performance.

Technology Committee

Pursuant to its charter, the Technology Committee represents and assists the Board of Directors with the oversight of:

Senior leadership also briefs the Technology Committee and board members on matters relating to the Company’s strategic technology capabilities, including information security capabilities. The Technology Committee may also assist the Audit Committee in its oversight of our information technology internal controls, cybersecurity, business continuity and disaster recovery programs. Senior leadership provides briefings to the Audit Committee and Technology Committee on information technology controls and risk as least once per year, and separately updates the full Board of Directors on cybersecurity matters at least once per year. Briefings are also provided as-needed in response to industry or company specific developments or material events.

Corporate Governance Policies

Majority Vote Policy

Under our Bylaws, a director nominee will be elected if the number of votes cast for the nominee exceeds the number of votes cast against the nominee. In contested elections, those in which a stockholder has nominated a person for election to the Board, the voting standard is a plurality of votes cast. The Board has also adopted a policy to require the Board to nominate for election only nominees who agree that, if they are elected to the Board, they will tender an irrevocable resignation conditioned on, first, the failure to achieve the required vote for re-election at any future meeting at which they face re-election, and second, the Board’s acceptance of their resignation following that election. In addition, the Board may fill director vacancies and new directorships only with candidates who agree to tender, promptly following their appointment to the Board, the same form of resignation tendered by other directors, as described above. The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee will submit a recommendation for prompt consideration by the Board whether to accept the resignation. Any director whose resignation is under consideration will abstain from participating in any decision regarding that resignation. The Bylaws also require stockholder nominees for director election to notify the Company whether or not such nominees intend to tender the same type of resignation required of the Board’s director nominees.

Change in Director’s Primary Position

The Board has adopted a policy requiring that a director whose primary position or affiliation changes must promptly notify the Board and the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee of the change so that a determination may be made as to the value of his or her continued service on the Board.

Director Stock Ownership Policy

Our Board believes that directors should be stockholders and have a significant personal financial stake in the Company. Consequently, the Board has adopted the following stock ownership guidelines:

Compliance with these guidelines is monitored by the Organization & Compensation Committee.

Director Attendance

The Board has developed a number of specific expectations of directors to define their responsibilities and to promote the efficient conduct of the Board’s business. With respect to the level of commitment expected of directors and related attendance protocols, as part of the Guidelines, the Board formally adopted a policy that all directors should make every effort to attend all meetings of the Board and the Committees of which they are members, and the Company’s Annual Meeting of Stockholders. Attendance by telephone or video conference may be used to facilitate a Director’s attendance.

During 2022, apart from Committee meetings, the Board of Directors met 24 times. All directors attended at least 75% of the scheduled Board of Directors’ meetings and meetings held by Committees of which they were members. All director nominees serving as directors at that time attended the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on April 21, 2022.

Executive Sessions of Non-Management Directors

In 2022, our non-management directors held regularly scheduled, formal executive meetings, separate from management and were led by our Chairman. Additional executive sessions of the Board are held as necessary or appropriate or upon the request of the Chairman, the Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee or any two other non-management directors. In addition, our non-management directors who qualify as independent within the meaning of our director independence guidelines meet in executive session at least once annually, and, in fact, met in 2022 in connection with each regularly scheduled Board of Directors meeting.

Code of Ethics and Code of Business Conduct

The Company has adopted the “Code of Conduct for the Chief Executive Officer and Senior Financial Officers,” which we refer to as the Executive Code of Ethics, violations of which are reported to the Audit Committee. In addition, we operate under the omnibus Humana Inc. Ethics Every Day, which we refer to as the Code of Ethics, which applies to all associates (including executive officers) and directors. The Humana Ethics Office is responsible for the design and enforcement of our ethics policies, the goal of which is to create a workplace climate in which ethics is so integral to day-to-day operations that ethical behavior is self-enforcing. All employees are required annually to review and affirm in writing their acceptance of the Code of Ethics. The Code of Ethics and the Executive Code of Ethics may be viewed on our website at www.humana.com. Any waiver for directors or executive officers from the provisions of the Code of Ethics or the Executive Code of Ethics must be made by the Board of Directors and will be disclosed within four days of the waiver on our website at www.humana.com. To see either the Code of Ethics or the Executive Code of Ethics or any waivers to either policy, go to www.humana.com, then click on “Investor Relations,” then click on “Corporate Governance,” and then click on the relevant link.

Policy Regarding Employee, Officer and Director Hedging

The Company has a policy prohibiting all associates (including executive officers and independent directors) from hedging or pledging transactions using Company stock, including: (1) engaging in short sales of Company securities; (2) engaging in transactions in puts, calls or other derivative securities designed to hedge or offset any decrease in the market value of the Company’s equity securities, on an exchange or in any other organized market; or (3) engaging in certain monetization transactions, including holding Company securities in margin accounts or pledging Company securities as collateral.

Advocacy and Public Policy

With a focus on improving clinical outcomes and advancing affordability and access, our Company’s approach to advocacy and public policy is built around people (that is, the members, patients, providers, and communities we serve). To that end, our day to day efforts are centered around supporting policies that strengthen Medicare Advantage, accelerate value-based care in the home, expand opportunities to serve patients through primary and home-based care, integrate clinical solutions, create affordability for prescription drugs, and address barriers to care by addressing the root causes of poor health, as well as leveraging our capabilities to remove barriers to access and partnering with clinicians to improve quality. This focus raises the bar for the care we provide to help move toward a future in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

The Company has also established and sponsors a Political Action Committee (PAC), for which Company associates may voluntarily contribute. The PAC is registered with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) and certain states nationwide as required by applicable law. As a matter of policy, all Company political activities must promote the interests of the Company and must be made without regard for the private political preferences of Company officers or executives. Furthermore, Humana does not make independent expenditures, nor does it contribute to ballot measure committees. Distributions from the PAC are made to federal and state office candidates (and related election committees) or to other PACs on a non-partisan basis when, like the Company, such persons are solution-oriented and believe in building a high-quality, accessible and affordable health care system. The PAC is also committed to supporting diverse candidates at the state and federal level. While the PAC has its own separate board of directors to oversee its operations, the Company’s Board—through its

Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee—has responsibility for (i) reviewing the political contributions and political activities of the Company and the PAC and (ii) overseeing compliance with the overall policy, process and contribution criteria with respect to such contributions and activities. The Board reviews occur semi-annually, along with semi-annual publication of a Contributions and Related Activity Report (PAC Report). To learn more about our public policy and to review the most recent PAC Report, visit our website at www.humana.com, then click on “About Humana,” then click on “Public Policy.”

Communication with Directors

Stockholders and other interested parties may communicate directly with our Chairman, non-management directors as a group, or any other individual director by writing to the special e-mail address published on our website. Specifically, interested parties may visit our website at www.humana.com then click on “About Humana,” then click on “Board of Directors,” where instructions for contacting these persons are available. All directors have access to this e-mail address. We use the staff of our Corporate Secretary to review correspondence received in this manner and will filter advertisements, solicitations, spam, and other such items. Concerns related to accounting, internal controls or auditing matters are required to be brought immediately to the attention of our Chief Legal Officer and the Board and handled in accordance with procedures established by the Audit Committee with respect to such matters.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)

Board Oversight of Environmental, Social and Governance Matters

The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee has responsibility for Board-level oversight of the Company’s ESG strategy, practices and reporting. The Nominating, Governance & Sustainability Committee receives formal ESG reports from management at least twice annually regarding the Company’s ESG initiatives, metrics and progress on established goals, as well as ad hoc ESG communications as necessary. The full Board is invited to attend and participate during these meetings and receives access to all ESG reporting. In addition, we have an internal ESG Steering Committee, overseen by our Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Legal Officer, to guide the integration of our ESG efforts with our long-term business strategy. This ESG governance structure complements the long-standing responsibility of our Board and each of our Board committees in overseeing various aspects of the Company’s ESG-related risks and practices, as illustrated below:

Strategic Focus on ESG

We realize that the future of our business is linked with the well-being of our associates, members and patients, the communities we serve, the healthcare system, and the environment. It’s with our stakeholders in mind that we’ve established five key metrics categories (the “Categories”) of our ESG program that align to our strategic business goals, supporting our commitments to sustainable business and improving health outcomes. These Categories are the driving force behind our impact platform and guide our ESG program.

We’ve developed quantitative and/or qualitative metrics within each Category to track, monitor, measure and report our performance. Transparent disclosures are a top priority, as such, we’ve mapped our ESG disclosures to frameworks established by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Managed Care Standard, the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).

Our Impact Platform

We’ve set our intentions to have a positive well-being impact among all of our stakeholder groups and have developed a platform where we believe we can make the most difference. Our impact platform sets the direction for how we will advance health equity, address needs in our communities and drive sustainable change with shared value. The Categories may connect to one or more areas within the impact platform, reinforcing the interconnectedness of our holistic approach to ESG. We’ve highlighted below key elements of our ESG program along with some of our notable Category metrics.

For Each Person

		Human Capital Management   For each person starts with each of our associates, approximately 67,100 as of December 31, 2022, and our approach to human capital management. Not only are our associates intrinsically connected

under each dimension of ESG, they’re also essential to our Company’s success in delivering on our core strategy, creating positive healthcare experiences and providing human care for our members. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining strong, diverse teams, and actively promoting a culture of inclusion and diversity within our workforce.

These efforts are overseen by our Board of Directors through the Organization & Compensation Committee, whose functions include oversight of the Company’s human capital management and inclusion and diversity policies and practices, which are implemented under the direction of our Chief Administrative Officer.

Our Culture, Engagement and Approach to Work

We believe that our members’ experience is linked to our associates’ experience—engaged, productive associates are the key to building a healthy company and caring environment where our associates go above and beyond for our members, driving innovation, and offering fulfilling experiences that incentivizes them to stay with us over the long-term. We provide opportunities for our associates to add to their personal well-being experiences that go beyond health to enhance their individual need for purpose, belonging and security. On average, our associates spend 7.5 years at our Company—a tenure testament to the culture of well-being we’re building.

Still, like many companies, we experienced lower engagement and higher turnover in 2021 and 2022 than in prior years. Our associate voluntary turnover rate (VTR) for 2022 was 17%, up from 15.1% in 2021. We measure VTR using data generated via Workday and include any full or part-time, regular associates who left voluntarily during each year; contractors and variable staffing pool (VSP) are excluded, as are associates resulting from 2022 acquisitions not yet transitioned to Humana’s Workday system at yearend (i.e. CenterWell Home Health).

However, associate engagement and well-being rates remained higher than average, despite challenges posed by the Great Resignation, COVID-19 and workforce optimization efforts to fulfill the Company’s commitment to execute on its $1 billion value creation initiative to allow for increased investment in our Medicare Advantage benefits and healthcare services capabilities.

We regularly measure our success and opportunities to advance engagement through methods like a third-party administered Associate Experience Survey and continuous listening campaigns. Continuous listening involves our proactive solicitation, analysis and response to associate feedback. Pulse surveys are sent to associates throughout the year to get feedback on how we’re doing, allowing us to assess our approach to work and act when needed. We believe this helps to strengthen our culture and support associate engagement. We also provide survey results to our entire associate population and encourage leaders to use the information to create open, honest action plans with their teams to build upon and further deepen our collective engagement.

We believe strong Company culture starts with leadership at the top. Our CEO inspires Company culture by sending a weekly Company-wide email where he engages with associates on a variety of topics including business matters, current events, health and well-being, family and personal interests. A survey link is included within these communications encouraging associates to speak up and share their own experiences directly with our CEO, with assurance that their opinions will be held confidential and treated with respect.

Our culture is further strengthened by optimizing the well-being and effectiveness of our workforce. Through alternative work styles — home, hybrid home, office, hybrid office, and field — we help associates work more productively, communicate more easily and collaborate more freely. We encourage collaboration between leaders and their associates to identify and leverage the appropriate work style that both supports the achievement of business goals and personal work preferences. Alternate work styles enable associates to work from a job-appropriate location of their choice for all or some portion of their work schedule and to create a work schedule that better fits the diverse demands of today’s work environment. When managed effectively, alternate work styles can enhance a company’s employment brand, foster the development and effective delivery of innovative and diverse business solutions, right-size a company’s energy-consumption footprint, and increase associate engagement and well-being.

To help integrate inclusion and diversity into the fabric of the organization from the top down, the Council is led by our President and CEO, with top priorities consisting of (i) leading and informing the strategy to drive the hiring, development, promotion and retention of our full diverse workforce; (ii) creating and maintaining an inclusive culture; (iii) reviewing our supply base and spend for diversification opportunities; and (iv) improving transparency and accountability to sustain outcomes. The Council sets company-wide inclusion and diversity goals and objectives that complement our Talent & Diversity ESG Category metrics.

At our Company, we are committed to having balanced diversity at all levels and have developed a pathway for diverse talent within our recruiting initiatives. To achieve our recruiting and hiring goals we proudly partner with local and national advocacy groups, including the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, the Catalyst CEO Champions for Change, and the OneTen Coalition, to provide information about open roles, assistance with resume preparation and application submission, and to design and execute other talent acquisition and development initiatives. We’re proud to be recognized as a Military Friendly employer. Under our Veterans Hiring Initiative, we partner with dozens of organizations for veteran recruitment, including the Wounded Warrior Project, United States Army Reserve, and Paralyzed Veterans of America, and have hired thousands of veterans and military spouses. We have also designed and implemented programs that enhance our hiring initiatives aimed toward women in technology, retiree/mature worker populations, and closing the hiring gap of persons with disabilities versus those without disabilities.

We’ve also incorporated balanced interview panels into our interview process, through which we strategically engage a broad spectrum of interviewers that bring greater diversity and perspective. This proven best practice strengthens the candidate experience and hiring of diverse talent, ensuring we get the right talent for any given role, and minimizes the potential for personal blind spots when evaluating candidates.

Building balanced diversity within our workforce is a priority that’s demonstrated in our leadership goals – hiring and promotion of diverse talent, retention of diverse senior leadership (VP and above), inclusion, mentoring and leaders participating in cultural competency training – with shared accountability focused on driving inclusion and diversity throughout the enterprise. We’ve employed an approach to address areas of improvement and goal achievement that is linked to executive compensation (refer to section entitled “Compensation Discussion and Analysis – Associate Incentive Plan” within this proxy statement for more information on executive compensation). We receive workforce demographic data within our Workday system through self-disclosure by our associates, allowing us to provide transparent disclosures. The charts below represent our workforce demographics as of December 31, 2022.

I&D isn’t a program or a leadership initiative, or just a business imperative. It is the way we work, each and every day to deliver on our purpose. It is who we are as an organization – and it is the responsibility of all of us. I&D is how we sustain human care. Our associates’ vast experiences and perceptions—their unique characteristics, backgrounds and beliefs—drive the groundbreaking, strategic thinking that gives our Company its competitive edge in a diverse marketplace. Our approach fosters innovative thinking and creativity, expands insights and generates better business outcomes.

Pay and Benefits Philosophy, Compensation and Financial Security

We believe all of our associates have the right to receive a fair living wage and we are committed to maintaining a pay and benefits philosophy that is market-based and recognizes an associate’s contributions so that we can attract and retain an engaged, talented team. Our Company’s pay and benefits structure is designed to motivate, incentivize and reward our associates—at all levels of the organization—for their skill development, demonstration of our values and performance. While our programs vary by location, associate type and business, they generally include:

•  Competitive Base Pay   •  Associate Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus)   •  Supplemental Pay (Including Overtime)   •  Recognition Pay and Service Awards   •  401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Match Program   •  Life Insurance   •  Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance   •  Tuition Assistance Program				•  Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits   •  Supplemental Health Benefits   •  Long-Term Care Insurance   •  Go365® Wellness and Rewards Program   •  Health Plan Incentives   •  On-site Health and Fitness Centers   •  On-site Health Screenings and Vaccinations				•  Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Paid Volunteer Time Off and Jury Duty Pay   •  Adoption Assistance   •  Paid Parental Leave Program (6 Weeks)   •  Paid Caregiver Time Off Program (2 Weeks)   •  Employee Assistance Program   •  Associate Discount Programs and Services   •  Helping Hands Program   •  Transit Services

Talent Development and Growth Opportunities

We champion the individual goals and development of our associates and provide a number of programs and resources to support their efforts. The Humana Learning Center gives our associates the opportunity to earn professional certifications through continued education programs and to participate in instructor-led and online courses designed to strengthen soft and hard-skills and enhance leadership development. Our Career Cultivation team sponsors workshops and events to promote associate accountability within their personal and professional growth as part of overall career development. In 2022, our associates averaged approximately 35 learning and development hours per active full-time associate. In addition, people leaders collectively spent over 145,000 total hours in learning and development; of which, over 25,000 hours (17%) were related to content specific to leadership development.

Our associates are also encouraged to participate in mentoring programs with people of various backgrounds and cultures. We view mentoring as an essential development tool for sharing skills and knowledge so we can all succeed. Our commitment to mentoring feeds the successful future of our Company and through our efforts 7,818 of associates engaged in mentoring relationships during 2022. We also utilize development programs to enhance talent within our business segments through targeted internal initiatives, where we aim to upskill and reskill existing associates for opportunities in new career pathways.

A Workplace With Purpose

Having a purpose and a connection to a community improves well-being. That’s why we strive to make it easy for our associates to give back, either as individuals or a team, to causes that ignite their passion and sense of purpose. Volunteerism is a tangible way to impact the health and well-being of the communities we serve and enrich our workplace.

We’ve created programs and practices to make volunteering easier and more vibrant for associates.

Addressing the Needs of Our Members and Patients

Helping each of our members and patients achieve their optimal whole-person health has long been a strategic imperative for Humana. Whether it’s by focusing on preventive and primary care, managing health conditions, setting and achieving health-related goals, or finding the right care in the right place – at home, in the community, or through telehealth – we help make the journey toward health simpler for our members.

We’re also continuously working to ensure that our health plan products and services are as affordable as possible, while also creating pathways for access to healthcare, addressing social determinants of health (SDoH) and health-related social needs. Our work in these areas is essential to advancing health equity and improving health outcomes so that all of our members can receive the care they need. Thanks to processes such as integrated care delivery and using health screenings that consider SDoH and health literacy, we have a clearer view of each member’s very personal barriers to their best health. Please refer to our Value-Based Care Report for more information on these efforts.

For Each Community

Our Health Equity & Social Impact team is leading the way in addressing social needs and reducing health disparities to improve health outcomes for our members and communities. As part of their mission to establish health equity as a key business and culture driver, they offer insights to embed healthy living opportunities in our products and services, train employees and providers to help them offer more meaningful care and enable new insights through data-driven innovations. Their work centers on creating an equitable healthcare ecosystem so that every person has a fair, just and dignified opportunity to reach their full health potential. Additionally, this team continues to transform how our members are identified for and receive health need interventions. Through screenings during the new member onboarding process, we can identify what members need—and then connect them with resources and services to address those needs. Throughout these screenings, we leverage de-identified, population-level data analytics to measure our progress in offering meaningful interventions.

For over 41 years, The Humana Foundation has served as the philanthropic arm of Humana Inc. The Foundation is focused on health equity, which is the elimination of unjust, avoidable and unnecessary barriers in health and healthcare. The Foundation fosters evidence-based collaborations and investments that support seniors, Veterans, underrepresented populations and school-aged children in living connected, healthy lives.

For the Healthcare System

and address the effects of health disparities in the U.S. healthcare system. We have established policies and programs that illustrate our commitment to responsible business practices that lead to a more efficient, equitable and sustainable healthcare system.

Supplier Diversity

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is integral to how we practice, deliver and sustain human care to the communities we proudly serve, which is why we incorporate ESG principles into our procurement strategy—ensuring a fair and equitable approach to procurement. We understand that partnering with diverse suppliers and small businesses, and engaging with them to support common ESG goals, can lead to future sustainability and a reduction in environmental costs. We also understand that inclusive procurement practices deliver broad societal benefits by creating economic opportunities for traditionally underserved or underrepresented groups. That’s why we’ve made it a priority and strive to attract qualified, certified suppliers who reflect our members, patients, associates and the communities we serve. Leveraging these suppliers now and in the future is a win-win for everyone.

Our Supplier Diversity Program promotes an inclusive approach to procurement that ensures we invest our dollars with a balance of partnerships with historically underutilized businesses. We also support the growth of small and diverse-owned businesses by being a resource partner for them, through initiatives like our Supplier Diversity Mentor-Protégé program. The program offers half-day, onsite seminars featuring leadership from across our organization exploring topics impacting business growth and operations of small and diverse businesses. The program is designed to identify and overcome barriers that typically inhibit or restrict the success of small and diverse businesses and better position them for growth, sustainability and inclusion.

We also survey suppliers annually through a sustainability scorecard that addresses sustainability, diversity practices and supplier performance. The scorecard is distributed at year-end to our top 50 Prime Suppliers (top spend suppliers) and we typically receive a 25-30% overall spend response rate. We also hold our suppliers accountable for complying with our Company’s Standard of Excellence and Ethics Every Day policy – to the same degree as our associates.

Governance and Accountability

Throughout our operations, we are dedicated to ensuring that every business decision we make reflects our Standards of Excellence, commitment to accountability, health equity and improving health and well-being. Our governance practices and policies reflect strong controls that provide a solid foundation for our continued success.

Quality Assurance. We are committed to supporting the delivery of consistent high-quality care, promoting efficient outcomes in the healthcare system and ensuring that healthcare remains affordable for all members and patients. Further, in a healthcare industry increasingly driven by quality, we have a corporate Quality Improvement (QI) program – with practicing network physicians as members of various quality subcommittees – to monitor, evaluate and facilitate improvement in the quality of health care services provided to our members. The QI program is overseen by our Corporate Quality Improvement Committee (CQIC), which among other things, promotes alignment to the third dimension of quality (experience and outcomes) through collaboration with stakeholders, personal accountability and speaking up when quality does not meet our standards.

Ethics and Compliance. Our associates are integral to responsibly running our company and key to our ethics and compliance practices. That’s why we require Humana’s independent directors, executive officers and all other associates, and contractors to complete an annual ethics and compliance training course, which includes detailed training in cybersecurity, whistleblowers, conflicts of interest and more. In addition to required annual training, our Enterprise Compliance team regularly communicates and engages with associates on ethics and compliance topics throughout the year. We also enforce Standards of Conduct and a separate Compliance Policy, which are specifically designed for our contracted healthcare providers and third parties in effort to deter fraud, waste and abuse.

Responsible Data Use and Data Privacy. As we evolve to deliver more services and goods through digital operations, we recognize our responsibility to protect member data and patient privacy, as well as use enterprise-level analytics to continue to equitably innovate for those we serve. Integrating digital capabilities across the organization will further accelerate our Company’s move toward differentiated experiences for our customers at the intersection of healthcare and lifestyle, tailored especially to the needs of seniors. We recognize that our emphasis on technology comes with great responsibility as our customers trust us with keeping their information safe. To that end, we are proud to be an industry leader in the adoption of principles and governance to guide our implementation of emerging technologies through interdisciplinary committees that establish governance over the deployment and quality of Artificial and Augmented Intelligence models. We have also signed the EqualAI pledge committing to ensuring our Artificial and Augmented Intelligence tools do not incorporate unintentional bias, and we require all of our Artificial or Augmented Intelligence models that inform decisions about individuals to be reviewed to detect inadvertent bias. We further ask our vendors who utilize Artificial and Augmented Intelligence tools to sign the EqualAI pledge or another similar pledge.

Cybersecurity. We are committed to continuously enhancing and strengthening our technology infrastructure and security protocols to protect against security breaches. We employ best-practice precautions to safeguard information and protect our members’ data by deploying defensive practices against the ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. This involves routine measuring and maturing of our cybersecurity capabilities and actively monitoring risks posed by threat actors. Additionally, we have established formal data governance, which includes accountability, oversight, processes and controls to ensure our data usage transparency and non-repudiation and we refresh our data privacy and security policies at least annually. Our associates are provided annual cybersecurity training led by our Enterprise Information Protection team, on how to avoid security vulnerabilities and equip them with the necessary tools to protect sensitive data and to reduce risk. We also test our associates’ knowledge through internal phishing campaigns – tracking and reporting aggregated outcomes to leadership. To further reinforce our accountability in this area, we engage an independent third-party audit firm to perform an Annual Service Organizational Controls (SOC) 2 audit of enterprise claims platforms within the following Trust Services Criteria: availability, confidentiality, security and processing integrity. We report data breaches, as required by law, to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR); our reports are publicly available, free of charge, and can be obtained through the OCR Portal at https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach.

For the Environment

We also understand that health is local, so we are engaged at a state and community level to address the health-related social needs of our members and communities, especially communities that have been historically underserved. Those same communities are often disproportionately affected by climate change, as evidenced in health outcomes and disaster recovery data, so we know our focus on these areas can have a significant impact.

As a services company, our direct environmental impacts are concentrated within our internal operations. As such, our focus is on areas where we feel we can make the most impact: reducing our greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and waste from our operations; deploying water conservation efforts; and adopting renewable energy solutions. We understand that climate change impacts pose risks and opportunities for our business and seek to manage such impacts in several ways, including: continuous strengthening of our already robust business continuity program, investing in energy management and efficiency projects and applying financial incentives to support efforts toward reducing our environmental footprint. We also set challenging environmental targets, as shown below, that promote collaboration with vendors and associates to achieve them. These efforts mitigate risks and demonstrate our commitment by validating the intrinsic link between environment and health.

Our Workplace Solutions Environmental Sustainability (WSES) team, overseen by our Chief Administrative Officer, aims to support Humana’s lifelong well-being strategy by ensuring that we are doing our part to take on climate change, pollution and other environmental factors that impact our health. This team is responsible for day-to-day planning, coordination and implementation of the Company’s operational environmental sustainability policies, including those around energy management and climate-change mitigation/adaptation.

We provide a full report of our GHG emissions, energy consumption and water usage within our Impact Report, available on www.humana.com, refer to the “Environmental Year-over-year Data Inventory Table.” We also align our environmental reporting to the framework established by the Task Force on Climate-Related Disclosures (TCFD). We encourage you to review our Environmental Sustainability Policy Statement and our 2022 CDP Report to learn more about our sustainability efforts and areas of concentration.

Science-based Target

In 2021, we announced our intention to create a more robust next generation environmental goal to address climate change that would align with criteria established by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). Since then, we’ve been developing a science-based target (SBT) that includes Scopes 1, 2 and 3 and have presented our proposal to SBTi for official validation. Among other strategies, our SBT will include continued investment and improvement in our facilities, which we know is critical to achieve energy-efficient buildings, to reduce the amount of energy we use, and the amount of waste generated.

This work is an expansion of goals that we set in 2018, to uphold our pledge to make the planet healthier. At that time, we introduced innovative programs and proven practices, such as centralizing office waste and recycling bins, reducing printers, and donating office furniture. Three years later, keeping in line with best practices around goal setting, we expanded our goal boundary to include certain additional Humana-owned and leased properties and recalculated our goal progression over the last five years. Now that we’ve surpassed our five-year objectives, we’re looking at the decade ahead. We will continue to invest in the health and sustainability of the environment around by tackling ambitious new goals that continue to reduce waste and pollution and mitigate other environmental factors that impact our health. Our SBT will expand on our efforts to reduce emissions and waste through Scope 1 and Scope 2 initiatives and it is designed to spur innovation and efficiency, boost investor confidence and align with national benchmarking. We understand that a path forward to net zero emissions is important to our collective future and we’re analyzing tactics, appropriate to our business, that allow us to utilize our SBT to contribute to future net zero goals.

Components of our near-term SBT—designed using climate science, SBTi’s methodology and SBTi’s official target setting tool—are illustrated below. We anticipate receiving SBTi’s validation of our SBT during Summer 2023 and will communicate accordingly.