Challenges and Successes of Startups in the Medicaid Space

Jacob and Nikhil sit down with Sarah London, CEO of Centene Corporation, the largest managed Medicaid organization in the country, serving 15 million Medicaid members. They discuss Medicaid partnerships and redeterminations, SDoH innovation and outcomes, and payers vertically expanding their ownership.

(0:00) intro

(0:39) Centene’s footprint today

(1:37) working with startups

(6:24) Centene’s priorities

(12:23) how state RFPs have changed over time

(15:04) differences between states

(18:40) Medicaid redeterminations

(22:35) will every payer end up looking like United Optum?

(29:09) what kind of data is most helpful?

(31:46) where Gen AI can be implemented in healthcare

(35:20) ICHRA markets

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