Kansas to KanCare contractor: Your improvement plan isn't good enough

TOPEKA -- A Kansas Medicaid contractor facing allegations that it’s not living up to the terms of its $1 billion a year contract insists it’s doing better.

The state says the company still isn’t doing well enough.

Aetna holds a key contract in managing KanCare, the state’s privatized Medicaid program. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment raised a range of concerns with the company last month, including credentialing medical providers for billing and problems with claims.

Aetna responded with a corrective action plan and letter, dated Aug. 7, that KDHE released Tuesday. The company says it’s addressed several concerns and many others are “well on their way to being brought into compliance” under the contract.

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