Mississippi’s Medicaid division is asking the state’s Personal Service Contract Review Board to examine contracts awarded to Long Beach, Calif.-based Molina Healthcare, Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealthcare and Jackson, Miss.-based Magnolia Health Plan worth $2 billion. A group of Mississippi hospitals and another insurer are disputing the contracts in a state chancery court, the report states.
Clay Chandler, a spokesperson for the governor, said, “Gov. Bryant believes every contract the state lets should be fair, equitable and transparent.”
The contracts will be submitted to the Personal Service Contract Review Board for examination in September, Daily Journal reports. The agreements need to gain CMS approval to be finalized.
The contracts were slated to begin July 1 with a one year enactment period before payments began in July 2018. UnitedHealthcare and Magnolia, which have existing managed care contracts with the state, will sustain their agreements.
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