South Florida Community Care Network LLC, operating as Community Care Plan, has entered the legal fray surrounding Florida’s Medicaid managed-care contracts. The company filed a motion last week to intervene in a lawsuit brought by ImagineCare LLC, a losing bidder seeking to halt the implementation of these multi-year contracts.
This move follows a similar action by Florida Community Care, LLC, another successful bidder, who also filed a motion to intervene last week.
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The lawsuit, filed by ImagineCare on July 17 in Leon County circuit court, aims to prevent the state Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) from proceeding with the contracts, which were awarded after a year-long process.
The AHCA initially announced plans to award contracts to five managed-care organizations, including Community Care Plan and Florida Community Care. However, bid protests from ImagineCare and other health plans led to settlement discussions and ultimately resulted in three additional plans receiving contracts and revisions to existing ones.
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Despite these settlements, ImagineCare intends to continue pursuing a protest through the administrative-law system and is seeking an injunction to prevent the AHCA from implementing the contracts while the protest is ongoing. Community Care Plan, in its motion to intervene, emphasized its vested interest in the proceedings and the potential impact the litigation could have on its operations.
The contracts in question involve tens of billions of dollars and cover the care of approximately 3.1 million Medicaid recipients in Florida as of June. With Community Care Plan’s entry into the lawsuit, the legal battle over these contracts is intensifying, with high stakes for all parties involved.
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