Anthem Unit Keeps $433 Million Medicare Support Contract

Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp. lost on its claim that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services improperly eliminated it from an administration services procurement under which Anthem Inc. company National Government Services Inc. received a $433 million contract, in a decision by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

WPS established standing to protest, but couldn’t show that the agency erred in assigning a weakness to the bid’s staffing plan, Judge Margaret M. Sweeney said in a decision released Thursday.

The agency reasonably found that the staffing plan posed a risk to successful performance due to a lack of knowledgeable ...