Datapoint: Texas Awards STAR+PLUS Medicaid Contracts
The state of Texas recently unveiled contract awards to seven payers for its STAR+PLUS Medicaid program, which serves older adults with disabilities. Incumbents UnitedHealthcare, Molina Healthcare, Elevance Health’s Amerigroup and Centene subsidiary Superior HealthPlan will continue to serve the program, to be joined by new entrants Community First Health Plans, El Paso Health and Community Health Choice Texas. The STAR+PLUS program currently serves 577,219 members, about 11% of the state’s managed Medicaid population.
Source: AIS’s Directory of Health Plans
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