Explain it to me like I’m five… how can Centene eliminate a bunch of Medicaid staff if the individual state contract requires certain positions to be in place?
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Depends. If you’re in the production space you could be fine if membership isn’t impacted. If you’re in admin, IT, data, middle mgmt, case management probably not
Corporate logic is this: it's only a compliance violation if they get penalized. I've seen two instances in that last week of them pushing the local market to cut in violation of their contractual requirements. St. Louis only cares about the next investor report.
@aj Centene shut down the Hawaii plan. Other markets could be next.
Maybe they're planning on selling or cutting the cost by pulling out of state contracts that are costing too much money. (Ie think about how United also pulled out of a few markets). Don't assume they care about the contract.
@a3 That’s not very One CenTEAM of Mommy and Daddy…
Mommy and daddy still love you very much, but they would be better off if only Mommy stayed in the house.
well if you are losing funding, why would they need many jobs. Su-ks but true