ValueOptions Awarded Behavioral Health Portions of Tenncare Contract

OPEN MINDS On-Line News Strategic Health Care News On April 24, 2008, ValueOptions announced that the company had been awarded two subcontracts with the Volunteer State Health Plan to provide behavioral health services for the East and West regions of Tennessee under two TennCare contracts awarded to Volunteer State Health Plan (VSHP), a subsidiary of BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. TennCare is Tennessee’s Medicaid program that provides health coverage to eligible adults, children, and families. The TennCare contracts were awarded to ValueOptions and VSHP following a competitive RFP process that began in January 2008. Other bidders included Amerigroup Corp . . .