Neidorff in June 2021, in which he said the company's goal is to increase its net income margin by 3.3%, to $120 billion. The article also details comments by Centene chief Michael F. That included $55 million in a settlement with Mississippi for failing to give contractually guaranteed discounts on Medicaid drugs.Īn $88.3 million settlement with the state of Ohio centered on accusations by the attorney general that Buckeye Health, a Centene subsidiary, set up a chain of businesses that double-charged the state for services. In mid-2021, Centene announced it would spend $1.25 billion to settle disputes with 22 state Medicaid systems, though the company admitted no wrongdoing, according to an Ohio Capital Journal report. "Since I haven't seen the amendment and no one's asked me to carry an amendment, as far as I know nobody's offered an amendment, we'll just have to wait and see what happens," Gardenhire said.Ĭentene has run into trouble already in Tennessee, causing the state to rebid a $123 million contract in 2021 after allegations of bid-rigging within the Department of Correction. He did not say whether he would simply decline to continue pushing the bill, describing himself as being in a "holding pattern."Ī House version of the bill has been criticized because it contains an amendment that would give a fourth TennCare contract to Centene Corp., even though it didn't win a bid in the state's procurement process.Įven without that significant change, the Senate's Health and Welfare Committee barely passed Gardenhire's version of the measure on March 9 after the Division of TennCare objected to the legislation.
TennCare is the state's Medicaid program for Tennessee's poorest residents. Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, said Monday nobody has brought him an amendment that would require the state to contract with Centene Corp., giving it a fourth provider of dual enrollment services for TennCare recipients eligible for Medicare and Medicaid.
Todd Gardenhire said Monday.Ĭhairman of the Legislature's Fiscal Review Committee, Gardenhire has taken a hard line on no-bid contracts approved by state departments and the Governor's Office over the past two years. There'd have to be some very compelling reason to do that," Sen. The Senate sponsor of TennCare legislation has serious reservations about changing the bill to give the nation's largest Medicaid managed-care company a multibillion-dollar contract after it failed to win a bid.
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