Centene Selected For Statewide Medicaid Contract And Statewide Specialty Children s Plan Contract In Oklahoma Font : A-A+ ST. LOUIS, Feb. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that its Oklahoma subsidiary, Oklahoma Complete Health, has been selected by the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OHCA) for statewide contracts to provide managed care for the SoonerSelect and SoonerSelect Specialty Children s Plan (SCP) programs. We look forward to working with the state of Oklahoma in their transition to value-based care models by providing services that address the social determinants of health, remove barriers to treatment, and deliver better health outcomes for Oklahoma residents at a lower cost to the state, said Brent Layton, Executive Vice President, Markets, Products, International, and Chief Business Development Officer of Centene. Oklahoma Complete Health will be a local partner to the OHCA and hire from within the communities we serve, a
A Wichita native who was convicted of fraud as a Tampa, Fla., health-care executive was pardoned by former President Donald Trump early Wednesday morning.
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Among the more than 140 people receiving pardons or having their sentences commuted by President Trump on his last day in office were several with healthcare ties, including practitioners.
Paul Behrens, Thaddeus Bereday,
Peter Clay,
Todd Farha, William Kale
Trump pardoned the five former executives of WellCare Health Plans, who were found guilty of defrauding Florida s Medicaid program. The defendants in this case falsely and fraudulently schemed to submit inflated expenditure information in the company s annual reports . in order to reduce the WellCare HMOs contractual payback obligations for behavioral health care services, the Justice Department said.
The White House labeled their case a case study in overcriminalization.. Notably, there was no evidence that any of the individuals were motivated by greed.
FBI agents raided WellCare's Tampa headquarters in 2007 as part of the investigation. A statement issued by the White House said the prosecution has been “widely cited as a case study in overcriminalization.”