Molina Wins Dispute Over Florida Medicaid Managed Care Contract

Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration properly awarded Molina Healthcare of Florida Inc. a contract to provide Medicaid managed care services for beneficiaries in the southwestern part of the state, a state appeals court said.

Best Care Assurance LLC—one of four successful applicants for a contract to provide Medicaid MCO services in Florida’s Region 8—couldn’t prevail in either a court challenge or an administrative protest to an additional contract awarded to Molina, the Florida Court of Appeal, First District, said Monday.

A Florida trial court lacked jurisdiction over Best Care’s lawsuit to block AHCA from entering into the Molina contract ...