Kansas Awards New Medicaid Managed Care Contracts To Sunflower, United Healthcare & Aetna
On June 22, 2018, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) announced it awarded the new KanCare 2.0 Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) contracts to Centene subsidiary, Sunflower State Health Plan, Inc.; United Healthcare of the Midwest Inc.; and Aetna Better Health of Kansas, Inc. Both United Healthcare and Sunflower hold current KanCare MCO contracts. Amerigroup (a subsidiary of Anthem, Inc.), is also a current KanCare incumbent, but was not awarded a contract; it has filed a protest. Unsuccessful bids were also submitted by AmeriHealth Caritas and WellCare.
The current contracts expire on December 31, 2018, and the . . .