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Aetna, Sunflower Health Plan and United Healthcare Community Plan have been contracted MCOs since 2018. The MCO contracts were rebid in 2023 and seven entities responded to the request for proposals.
A Shawnee County judge denied a petition from health insurance company Aetna challenging the new Kansas Medicaid contracts for KanCare MCOs.
A variety of different types of health plans serve Medicaid managed care programs, including for-profit and not-for-profit, Medicaid-focused and commercial, independent and owned by health care providers such as community health centers. In 2007, 350 health plans offered Medicaid coverage. Of those, 147 were Medicaid-focused health plans that ...
Coventry Health Care, Inc. was a health insurer in the United States. It had 3.7 million medical members, 1.5 million Medicare Part D members, and 900,000 Medicaid members. [ 2 ] In May 2013, the company was acquired by Aetna for $5.7 billion.
Isabella appears to have been caught up in the rocky aftermath of one of the biggest shake-ups in Medicaid’s 60-year history. When the Covid public health emergency was ending, the federal ...
In the 1980s, as Medicaid managed care expanded across the county, safety net providers, such as Community Health Centers (CHCs) and public hospitals, feared that managed care would reduce reimbursements for Medicaid-eligible services, making it more difficult for them to provide care to the un- and under-insured, and result in a loss of Medicaid volume, as beneficiaries would choose to see ...
In 2022, UnitedHealthcare, one of the state’s three Medicaid providers, began a pilot program to cover doula care for moms in Wyandotte County on the UnitedHealthcare Medicaid plan. Eventually ...
Susan Kay Mosier (born July 10, 1959) [1] is an American physician who is the former Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. [2] [3] On November 13, 2014, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback named Dr. Mosier as the Interim Secretary, replacing Dr. Robert Moser, who stepped down at the end of November. [2]