Industry Bulletins | July 16, 2020
Centene’s Illinois Subsidiary Meridian To Acquire Membership Of NextLevel Health Partners
Centene Corporation announced that its Illinois subsidiary, Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, Inc. (Meridian), and NextLevel Health Partners, Inc. (NLHP), a health plan serving Medicaid members in Cook County, Illinois, have entered into a Member Transfer Agreement. Under the agreement, Meridian will be assigned 100% of NLHP's approximately 54,000 members who access benefits from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services' HealthChoice Illinois Program.
As part of the agreement, Meridian has executed a care coordination agreement with NLHP to ensure continuity of care for a subset of the assigned membership, effective concurrently with the closing of the . . .