Five Companies Land Kentucky Medicaid Contracts

Five insurance companies were awarded contracts worth nearly $8 billion a year to manage most of Kentucky’s Medicaid business, Gov. Andy Beshear announced Friday.

Landing the contracts were Aetna, Humana, Molina Healthcare, UnitedHealthcare and WellCare, Beshear said. About 1.4 million people in Kentucky receive health coverage through Medicaid.

The Democratic governor refers to health care as a “basic human right.”

He said Friday that ensuring coverage for Medicaid recipients is “of the utmost importance to my administration.”

Source: MG News

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