Centene’s Illinois Subsidiary Meridian To Acquire Membership Of NextLevel Health Partners

Centene Corporation announced that its Illinois subsidiary, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc. (Meridian), and NextLevel Health Partners, Inc. (NLHP), a health plan serving Medicaid members in Cook County, Illinois, have entered into a Member Transfer Agreement. Under the agreement, Meridian will be assigned 100% of NLHP's approximately 54,000 members who access benefits from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services' HealthChoice Illinois Program.

As part of the agreement, Meridian has executed a care coordination agreement with NLHP to ensure continuity of care for a subset of the assigned membership, effective concurrently with the closing of the . . .