Beshear cancels and rebids $8B in Medicaid managed care contracts issued by Bevin
Beshear, a Democrat who took office
He listed several reasons for his action.
Beshear noted that the Bevin administration's original request for proposals for the contracts included its Medicaid waiver that required some Medicaid recipients to work to get health insurance. Beshear ended that last week, saying the waiver threatened the health care of nearly 100,000 Kentuckians.
Beshear also said members of the state legislature's Government Contract Review Committee unanimously voted to reject the contracts on
Passport and
Beshear said Monday the state will rebid the contracts on an accelerated time schedule and will operate, for the time being, under the contracts in place.
A request for proposals will be issued with a target date of
The process, said Beshear, may require an extension of the current contract to prevent a loss of coverage for any individual.
He stressed that his decision "has nothing to do with who won or lost in the initial process. The rebidding will be fair. No one is guaranteed a contract."
Companies that won contracts in the initial bidding were:
Both Passport, which serves about 300,000 Medicaid enrollees -- most in the
Beshear said any and all companies can participate in the rebidding process.
Passport's loss of the initial contract raised questions about a new headquarters and health campus it had planned to build in west
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