The 2016 OPEN MINDS Medicaid Managed Care Market Share Report

Managed care is the dominant Medicaid contracting model with 68.8% of the 75 million Medicaid enrollees receiving services through an at-risk managed care organization (MCO). In states with managed care, the Medicaid program generally contracts with a mixture of local and national private organizations to provide managed care services. As a result there are more than 200 organizations that provide managed care services. Despite the large number of health insurers, a small number of health insurers are responsible for covering the majority of Medicaid enrollees. The top ten Medicaid health insurers by enrollment cover about 29 million consumers . . .