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Medicaid Managed Care: Results for the Big Five in PHE Q13
The earnings reports for the “Big Five” for the quarter ending March 31—known here as PHE Q13—are in. The “Big Five”—CVSHealth (Aetna), Centene, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), Molina Healthcare, and United Health Group—need no introduction, either to state Medicaid agencies or investors. Together, they had 44.2 million Medicaid enrollees as of March 31. If children […]
State Medicaid Child Behavioral Health Data: Dashboard Library Update
First debuted in 2021, CCF’s Child Health Dashboard Library highlights states that post important information about children with Medicaid/CHIP into a central and easily accessible location in a readable (or even better, interactive) format. This includes data on enrollment, quality of care, utilization rates, and managed care performance – the type of information that is […]
New Brief: An Introduction to Managed Care in CHIP
Some three million kids in states with separate CHIP programs are enrolled in Managed Care Organizations (MCOs). Who are those MCOs, and how are they performing for those children? Unlike Medicaid, there’s no publicly available national database that answers those questions. Our new brief attempts to fill that gap. We utilized a variety of methods, […]
An Introduction to Managed Care in CHIP
DOWNLOAD THIS REPORT Introduction The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) was enacted 25 years ago. [1] Today it provides coverage for children whose family incomes are too high to allow them to qualify for Medicaid but too low to enable them to afford private health insurance coverage. Together, CHIP and Medicaid insure over half [2] […]
Medicaid Managed Care Financial Results for 2022: Another Big Year for the Big Five
The 2022 earnings reports for the “Big Five”—CVS Health (Aetna), Centene, Elevance Health (formerly Anthem), Molina, and United Health Group—are now in. As expected, combined Medicaid enrollment for the “Big Five” increased during 2022 by 3.3 million to 43.2 million, an increase of 8.2 percent (Table 1). (If children are enrolled in “Big Five” MCOs […]