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✦ Centene Corp. said June 30 that its Illinois subsidiary, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc., agreed to acquire the membership of Next Level Health Partners, Inc. The deal calls for Meridian to transfer its 54,000 Cook County, Ill., Medicaid members who receive benefits from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services’ HealthChoice Illinois Program. NextLevel had said in June that it would close following the April collapse of a proposed deal for Molina Healthcare, Inc. to buy the plan for $50 million (RMA 4/16/20, p. 8). Centene said it provided the initial capital that NextLevel needed to obtain its HMO license at the end of 2017 and has provided operational support since then. The deal is expected to close in July 2020. Visit https://prn.to/3dLUjQh.

✦ Recent surveys report conflicting information about Medicare Advantage consumers’ level of satisfaction with how their insurer is communicating during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly after a Deft Research study showed that only 24% of MA customers reported that they are aware of their plan’s COVID-19 response (RMA 6/18/20, p. 5), a J.D. Power study posted June 18 gave MA insurers poor marks on communicating with members. Meanwhile, a Morning Consult survey of 1,020 seniors conducted on behalf of the Better Medicare Alliance (BMA) found that 49% of respondents were very satisfied with how their MA plan informed beneficiaries about their response to the coronavirus, 40% were somewhat satisfied and 9% were somewhat unsatisfied. Visit https://bit.ly/2YfTPgJ and https://bit.ly/3hI8BEt.

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