A battle is heating up over Long Beach-based Molina Healthcare’s big contract win over the summer for California’s Medi-Cal business, including the addition of more than 1 million Medi-Cal enrollees in Los Angeles County.
The companies that lost out in the statewide bidding for Medi-Cal contracts – including Health Net of California Inc., the Woodland Hills-based subsidiary of St. Louis-based Centene Corp. and Oakland-based Blue Shield of California – have filed appeals of the contract awards and have also filed lawsuits against the California Department of Health Care Services demanding the release of the agency’s scoring documents used to determine the contract winners.
Blue Shield has also launched a public pressure campaign, including an open letter to Californians saying that switching out these Medi-Cal contracts will be disruptive to patients.
Molina has not commented publicly on the appeals and lawsuits.
But in…
