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- Kentucky Spirit Leaves The State; Cabinet Assigns Company's Clients To Other Medicaid Managed-care Firms
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 125,000 Medicaid patients in Kentucky have a new insurance company, with Saturday's departure of Kentucky Spirit from the state. The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services reassigned Kentucky Spirit's...
- Kentucky Spirit Still Plans To Leave State July 5; Judge Rules That State Can't Require Company To Stay For Two-month Transition
In the latest development in the saga of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit, the company appears to be the victor, at least for now, because a Franklin circuit judge this week that the state...
- Kentucky Spirit Appeals Court Ruling That It Can't Quit Kentucky Early
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Centene Corp. announced Monday that it has appealed the Franklin Circuit Court ruling in May that said its managed care subsidiary, Kentucky Spirit, cannot terminate its contract...
- Kentucky Spirit Can't Terminate Its Medicaid Contract With The State A Year Early Without Facing Fines, Judge Rules
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A Frankfort circuit judge ruled Friday that Kentucky Spirit, one of three companies hired by the state in November 2011 to manage health care for more than 540,000 Medicaid recipients, cannot pull out of its contract...
- Judge Orders Medicaid Managed-care Firm To Pay For School Health Services, Including $8 Million In Claims; Appeal Possible
Medicaid managed care company Kentucky Spirit must cover preventive care services provided by local health departments in schools, a judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd of Frankfort said the company must pay $8 million for the services already...
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Medicaid managed-care firm files suit, alleging the state's rush job resulted in unreliable financial information for bidders
Medicaid managed-care company Kentucky Spirit alleges in a lawsuit filed Monday that Gov. Steve Beshear so hurriedly privatized the service last year that he gave incorrect cost information to the bidders. The company said it relied on the bad information and thus has lost $120 million since its work began a year ago.
John Cheves of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Kentucky Spirit had hoped that it could let its contract terminate a year earlier than scheduled without paying the damages that Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes has now said the state will pursue. Cheves writes that Kentucky Spirit says they relied on a "data book" -- what managed-care companies used to estimate costs in their bids -- prepared by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. (Read more)
John Cheves of the Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Kentucky Spirit had hoped that it could let its contract terminate a year earlier than scheduled without paying the damages that Health and Family Services Secretary Audrey Haynes has now said the state will pursue. Cheves writes that Kentucky Spirit says they relied on a "data book" -- what managed-care companies used to estimate costs in their bids -- prepared by the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. (Read more)
- Kentucky Spirit Leaves The State; Cabinet Assigns Company's Clients To Other Medicaid Managed-care Firms
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News About 125,000 Medicaid patients in Kentucky have a new insurance company, with Saturday's departure of Kentucky Spirit from the state. The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services reassigned Kentucky Spirit's...
- Kentucky Spirit Still Plans To Leave State July 5; Judge Rules That State Can't Require Company To Stay For Two-month Transition
In the latest development in the saga of the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Medicaid managed-care firm Kentucky Spirit, the company appears to be the victor, at least for now, because a Franklin circuit judge this week that the state...
- Kentucky Spirit Appeals Court Ruling That It Can't Quit Kentucky Early
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Centene Corp. announced Monday that it has appealed the Franklin Circuit Court ruling in May that said its managed care subsidiary, Kentucky Spirit, cannot terminate its contract...
- Kentucky Spirit Can't Terminate Its Medicaid Contract With The State A Year Early Without Facing Fines, Judge Rules
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A Frankfort circuit judge ruled Friday that Kentucky Spirit, one of three companies hired by the state in November 2011 to manage health care for more than 540,000 Medicaid recipients, cannot pull out of its contract...
- Judge Orders Medicaid Managed-care Firm To Pay For School Health Services, Including $8 Million In Claims; Appeal Possible
Medicaid managed care company Kentucky Spirit must cover preventive care services provided by local health departments in schools, a judge has ruled. Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd of Frankfort said the company must pay $8 million for the services already...