Centene has withdrawn its financial guidance for the rest of the year after receiving data that showed its health insurance members in Affordable Care Act plans are getting a lot more care than the company had anticipated.
The company is also seeing a “step-up” in medical costs among its Medicaid enrollees. Centene’s stock plummeted 23% in after-hours trading Tuesday.
The surprise disclosure may be just the beginning of problems for Centene and other insurers that rely heavily on government health care enrollees. Centene gets a majority of its revenue from ACA and Medicaid plans. Despite Centene’s pleas to Republicans not to cut the taxpayer-funded programs, Republicans are advancing a bill that would result in the largest cut ever to Medicaid.
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