Centene Confident In 2019 Plan Year Despite Additional Competition

Centene CEO Michael Neidorff last week expressed confidence the nation's largest exchange issuer would continue to hit margins and enrollment goals, and maintain the demographics in its risk pool even though it will no longer be the only carrier in some service areas. Centene will expand into four states and six service areas, and will now offer qualified health plans on the exchanges in 20 states, including New York where the issuer recently completed its acquisition of Fidelis Care. Centene...