{"id":760,"date":"2021-02-24T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthplan.distilinfo.com\/?p=760"},"modified":"2021-02-24T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T10:42:08","slug":"oklahoma-medicaid-insurer-selection-process-flawed-aetna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/oklahoma-medicaid-insurer-selection-process-flawed-aetna\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Medicaid Insurer Selection Process Flawed: Aetna"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Aetna Better Health of Oklahoma has opposed the entry of four other private insurers to manage Oklahoma&#8217;s Medicaid program, reports said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"highlights wp-block-list\"><li>Under its Medicaid program SoonerSelect, Oklahoma, in late January chose our health insurers -Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, Humana Healthy Horizons, Oklahoma Complete Health (Centene subsidiary) and UnitedHealthcare for contracts worth $2.1 billion.<\/li><li>Aetna Better Health of Oklahoma &nbsp;which list lost its bid to manage the program, in a 51-page protest filed Feb. 12, claimed the bid process was flawed.<\/li><li>Aetan has levelled the allegation against Oklama authority of unfair evaluation of proposals, flawed scoring system to select winners, and improper review of &nbsp;the insurer&#8217;s entire proposal.<\/li><li>Those selected will begin managing Medicaid benefits for the state Oct. 1.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aetna Better Health of Oklahoma has opposed the entry of four other private insurers to manage Oklahoma&#8217;s Medicaid program, reports&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/oklahoma-medicaid-insurer-selection-process-flawed-aetna\/\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">Continue Reading <i class=\"fas fa-long-arrow-alt-right\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-distilinfo-originals","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distilinfo.com\/healthplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}