Payer Contracting

Kansas awarded Medicaid contracts managing care for 458,000 individuals to Centene, UnitedHealthcare and Healthy Blue. 

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield and CommonSpirit reached an agreement to keep 11 CommonSpirit Health hospitals in Colorado in Anthem's network. 

The Texas Department of Health and Human Services provided Aetna with copies of other competitors' bids for Medicaid contracts in error, The Texas Tribune reported April 26. 

Aetna and San Francisco-based Dignity Health have reached an agreement on a multiyear contract that allows the payer's members to remain in network with Dignity's facilities and providers in California, Arizona and Nevada.   

Eight managed care organizations have filed notices of intent to challenge Florida's recent Medicaid contract awards, which provide health coverage to more than 3.4 million people, per Florida Politics.

A major shake-up in Texas's Medicaid contract awards could threaten the existence of some hospital-owned plans, The Texas Tribune reported April 18. 

Florida intends to award contracts to five organizations to administer its Medicaid managed care program, which provides health coverage to more than 3.4 million people, per Florida Politics.

Michigan has awarded contracts to 9 payers to administer its managed Medicaid program, which serves nearly 2 million people across 10 regions.

Aetna's commercial and Medicare Advantage plans went out of network with Dignity Health facilities in California, Arizona and Nevada on April 4.

Nearly 600,000 New Jersey state and public school employees, along with their dependents, now have the choice to enroll in health plans offered by Aetna and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.