Healthcare DIVE March 14, 2025
The Silver State plans to award managed care contracts to incumbents UnitedHealth, Elevance, Centene and Molina — along with CareSource, a newcomer to the state.
Dive Brief:
- Nevada intends to award new Medicaid managed care contracts to UnitedHealth, Centene, Elevance, Molina and nonprofit health plan CareSource, according to state documents released Wednesday.
- Centene added a few rural counties, UnitedHealth lost one populous county and CareSource entered Nevada for the first time. But if Nevada divvies out contracts as intended, it shouldn’t dramatically change the current makeup of Medicaid managed care in the state, according to an analyst.
- The new contracts begin Jan. 1, 2026.
Dive Insight:
Nevada sent out a request for Medicaid contract proposals in October that...
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