The state’s largest Medicaid provider and the nation’s second largest Medicare Advantage provider will work together in a strategic alliance to offer one medical coverage plan for people who qualify for both the state and federally administered programs. More than 190,000 Ohioans are “dual eligibles,” typically low-income seniors, according to Ohio Office of Health Transformation.
One plan for this group of people could help contain rising health care costs, Morris said.
For CareSource, the deal means it could expand into more states with Humana. An expansion could also create more jobs at CareSource’s North Main Street Dayton headquarters and statewide, Morris said.
“For CareSource to go and do this on our own is really prohibitive,” she said. “It puts us on a bigger stage, more of a national stage, and it’s the ideal way from our standpoint to expand the mission of CareSource and cover many more thousands of consumers with our style of Medicaid managed care.”
CareSource has nearly 1,000 employees in Dayton. Morris did not know at this point how many jobs could be added . Humana, based in Louisville, Ky., said it has more than 5 million Medicare members in the U.S.