News Briefs

Jul 01
Jul 01, 2021

✦ Anthem, Inc. completed its previously announced acquisition of Puerto Rico-Based MMM Holdings from InnovaCare Health. The deal adds more than 275,000 Medicare Advantage members and more than 314,000 Medicaid members to Anthem’s membership, according to a June 30 press release. Citi estimated the transaction will increase Anthem’s MA rolls by 17%. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

✦ After the Biden administration revoked CMS’s prior approval of Medicaid work requirements in Arizona and Indiana, it was reported that Georgia will delay its partial Medicaid expansion by at least one month. Through a section 1115 waiver approved in October 2020, Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage demonstration would expand Medicaid to uninsured adults living at or below the federal poverty line if they participate in 80 or more hours per month of work, volunteering, school or another qualifying activity. In a letter to the CMS Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services, Georgia Department of Community Health Commissioner Frank Berry wrote that the state would delay the partial Medicaid expansion effort from its planned go-live date of July 1 to “until at least August 1, 2021.”
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Lauren Flynn Kelly

Lauren has been covering health business issues since the early 2000s and specializes in in-depth reporting on Medicare Advantage, managed Medicaid and Medicare Part D. She also possesses a deep understanding of the complex world of pharmacy benefit management, having written AIS Health’s Radar on Drug Benefits from 2004 to 2005 and again from 2011 to 2016. In addition to her role as managing editor of Radar on Medicare Advantage, she oversees AIS Health’s publications and manages the health editorial staff. She graduated from Vassar College with a B.A. in English.