ST.
LOUIS, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Centene
Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that its Nebraska subsidiary, Nebraska Total Care, has
been awarded the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
(DHHS) statewide Medicaid managed care contract. Under the new
contract, Nebraska Total Care will continue serving the state's
Medicaid Managed Care Program, known as Heritage Health. The new
contract term is five years and includes the option for two,
one-year renewals.
"We are pleased to continue our partnership with the state to
help build a healthier Nebraska,"
said Brent Layton, Centene's
President and Chief Operating Officer. "Together with our network
of local providers and community partners, we look forward to
delivering innovative solutions to help improve health outcomes for
our members at lower costs to the state."
The state's Medicaid managed care program provides access to
physical health, behavioral health, pharmacy, hospital, dental and
other services. Today, Nebraska Total Care serves more than 125,000
Medicaid enrollees and partners with nearly 60,000 healthcare
providers statewide.
"Since 2017, Nebraska Total Care has been committed to helping
Nebraskans live healthier lives," said Heath Phillips, Nebraska Total Care President
and CEO. "Our local approach reflects an understanding of the
unique challenges our members and their families face every day in
communities throughout the state."
In addition to Medicaid, Nebraska Total Care serves underinsured
and uninsured individuals through its federal insurance marketplace
plan, Ambetter, and provides insurance for the Medicare population
through its Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Plans
(PDP), Wellcare.
About Centene Corporation
Centene Corporation, a
Fortune 500 company, is a leading healthcare enterprise that is
committed to helping people live healthier lives. The Company takes
a local approach – with local brands and local teams – to provide
fully integrated, high-quality, and cost-effective services to
government-sponsored and commercial healthcare programs, focusing
on under-insured and uninsured individuals. Centene offers
affordable and high-quality products to nearly 1 in 15 individuals
across the nation, including Medicaid and Medicare members
(including Medicare Prescription Drug Plans) as well as individuals
and families served by the Health Insurance Marketplace, the
TRICARE program, and individuals in correctional facilities. The
Company also serves several international markets, and contracts
with other healthcare and commercial organizations to provide a
variety of specialty services focused on treating the whole person.
Centene focuses on long-term growth and value creation as well as
the development of its people, systems, and capabilities so that it
can better serve its members, providers, local communities, and
government partners.
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deemed material to investors. Financial and other information about
Centene is routinely posted and is accessible on Centene's investor
relations website, https://investors.centene.com/.
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without limitation, statements about our future operating or
financial performance, market opportunity, value creation strategy,
competition, expected activities in connection with completed and
future acquisitions and dispositions, including statements about
the impact of our recently completed acquisition of Magellan
Health, Inc. (the Magellan Acquisition), other recent and future
acquisitions and dispositions, our investments and the adequacy of
our available cash resources. These forward-looking statements
reflect our current views with respect to future events and are
based on numerous assumptions and assessments made by us in light
of our experience and perception of historical trends, current
conditions, business strategies, operating environments, future
developments and other factors we believe appropriate. By their
nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks
and uncertainties and are subject to change because they relate to
events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future,
including economic, regulatory, competitive and other factors that
may cause our or our industry's actual results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements to be materially different from any
future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These
statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject
to risks, uncertainties and assumptions. All forward-looking
statements included in this press release are based on information
available to us on the date hereof. Except as may be otherwise
required by law, we undertake no obligation to update or revise the
forward-looking statements included in this press release, whether
as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after
the date hereof. You should not place undue reliance on any
forward-looking statements, as actual results may differ materially
from projections, estimates, or other forward-looking statements
due to a variety of important factors, variables and events
including, but not limited to: our ability to accurately predict
and effectively manage health benefits and other operating expenses
and reserves, including fluctuations in medical utilization rates
due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19; the risk that the election
of new directors, changes in senior management, and any inability
to retain key personnel may create uncertainty or negatively impact
our ability to execute quickly and effectively; uncertainty
as to the expected financial performance of the combined company
following the recent completion of the Magellan Acquisition; the
possibility that the expected synergies and value creation from the
Magellan Acquisition or the acquisition of WellCare Health Plans,
Inc. (the WellCare Acquisition) or other acquired businesses will
not be realized, or will not be realized within the respective
expected time periods; disruption from the integration of the
Magellan Acquisition or the WellCare Acquisition, unexpected costs,
or similar risks from other acquisitions or dispositions we may
announce or complete from time to time, including potential adverse
reactions or changes to business relationships with customers,
employees, suppliers or regulators, making it more difficult to
maintain business and operational relationships; the risk that the
closing conditions, including applicable regulatory approvals, for
the pending dispositions of Magellan Rx and our Spanish and Central
European businesses, may be delayed or not obtained; impairments to
real estate, investments, goodwill and intangible assets; a
downgrade of the credit rating of our indebtedness; competition;
membership and revenue declines or unexpected trends; changes in
healthcare practices, new technologies, and advances in medicine;
increased healthcare costs; changes in economic, political or
market conditions; changes in federal or state laws or regulations,
including changes with respect to income tax reform or government
healthcare programs as well as changes with respect to the Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and
Education Affordability Reconciliation Act (collectively referred
to as the ACA) and any regulations enacted thereunder that may
result from changing political conditions, the new administration
or judicial actions; rate cuts or other payment reductions or
delays by governmental payors and other risks and uncertainties
affecting our government businesses; our ability to adequately
price products; tax matters; disasters or major epidemics; changes
in expected contract start dates; provider, state, federal, foreign
and other contract changes and timing of regulatory approval of
contracts; the expiration, suspension, or termination of our
contracts with federal or state governments (including, but not
limited to, Medicaid, Medicare, TRICARE or other customers); the
difficulty of predicting the timing or outcome of legal or
regulatory proceedings or matters, including, but not limited to,
our ability to resolve claims and/or allegations made by states
with regard to past practices, including at Envolve Pharmacy
Solutions, Inc. (Envolve), as our pharmacy benefits manager (PBM)
subsidiary, within the reserve estimate we recorded in 2021 and on
other acceptable terms, or at all, or whether additional claims,
reviews or investigations relating to our PBM business will be
brought by states, the federal government or shareholder litigants,
or government investigations; the timing and extent of benefits
from strategic value creation initiatives, including the
possibility that these initiatives will not be successful, or will
not be realized within the expected time periods; challenges to our
contract awards; cyber-attacks or other privacy or data security
incidents; the exertion of management's time and our resources, and
other expenses incurred and business changes required in connection
with complying with the undertakings in connection with any
regulatory, governmental or third party consents or approvals for
acquisitions or dispositions; any changes in expected closing
dates, estimated purchase price and accretion for acquisitions or
dispositions; restrictions and limitations in connection with our
indebtedness; our ability to maintain or achieve improvement in the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Star ratings and
maintain or achieve improvement in other quality scores in each
case that can impact revenue and future growth; the availability of
debt and equity financing on terms that are favorable to us;
inflation; foreign currency fluctuations; and risks and
uncertainties discussed in the reports that Centene has filed with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. This list of important
factors is not intended to be exhaustive. We discuss certain of
these matters more fully, as well as certain other factors that may
affect our business operations, financial condition and results of
operations, in our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC), including our annual report on Form 10-K,
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Due
to these important factors and risks, we cannot give assurances
with respect to our future performance, including without
limitation our ability to maintain adequate premium levels or our
ability to control our future medical and selling, general and
administrative costs.
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