Centene Dials Down Enrollment Estimate; Humana Downplays Market Exits

  • Sep 06, 2024

    During the Wells Fargo Healthcare Conference on Sept. 4, executives from Centene Corp. and Humana Inc. shared new details about how the headwinds facing their Medicaid and Medicare businesses are expected to play out. And within those updates, there was both good and bad news. 

    Centene Chief Financial Officer Drew Asher said during his presentation that the firm is “continuing to get Medicaid pressure,” largely due to the resumption of routine eligibility checks that restarted last spring after a multiyear pause during the COVID-19 pandemic. Centene discussed the issue at length during its second-quarter earnings call in July, “and so you might ask, all right, what’s changed in the last month and a half?” Asher said.  

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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