Centene's Operations Improve: Does the 12.34X P/E Make it a Buy?
CNC's improving Medicaid margins, stronger Marketplace profitability and earnings recovery support its valuation, but sustainability remains the key test.


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CNC's improving Medicaid margins, stronger Marketplace profitability and earnings recovery support its valuation, but sustainability remains the key test.

Because lawmakers have spent too much year after year, America's gross national debt now exceeds $40 trillion. The largest drivers of spending include Social S…

Medicaid and Medicare scammers include an illegal immigrant who billed $1.3 billion in six months (he's still at large), a Filipina nurse who billed $906 milli…

The changes will cut about $1 trillion from federal Medicaid spending over 10 years.
Ahead of the midterm elections, the president said that all states had opted in to an effort to align Medicaid's prices for medicines with those in other wealt…

Use of tuition aid, free school lunch programs and more could be grounds for denying applications for legal permanent residency under a new rule. States and ci…
President Donald Trump is set to announce that all 50 states will join a program to provide most favored nation pricing for some Medicaid drugs

Numerous patients suggested that Kakar Dental Group performed painful and unneeded procedures on children in order to rack up a bill.

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If you don't defend against Medicaid estate recovery, states are required to go looking for reimbursement, and real estate is often the only asset left.
Last year, congressional Republicans enacted the most significant entitlement reforms in recent memory. These changes are critical since Medicaid's explosive g…

Ali Gelle was once arrested for threatening to kill a woman, and hasn't paid his taxes. But he owns millions of dollars of property, including a building with…

"She has contacted the mortgage company, but they will not discuss the mortgage."
The administration of President Donald Trump has escalated its crackdown on transgender medical care ahead of the midterm elections.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that a final rule barring federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funds from being used to p…

"She left behind a 30-year-old son and 32-year-old daughter."
The program's spending on the therapy has quintupled since 2021, far outstripping the growth in diagnoses and raising concerns about overprescribing and fraud.

Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud. By now, when Shannon Rosa hears about cuts to Medic…

New Medicaid work requirements could put rare disease patients' coverage at risk. NORD CEO Pamela Gavin explains how families can prepare.

"She is in poor health and owns a home with a reverse mortgage that has been used to help pay for her caregivers."
Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025, while ride-hailing and food delivery app drivers shot up on lists compiled by the U.S. Gove…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said his agency is pausing $867.5 million in Medicaid payments to California and $199 million to Minn…

Trump's health secretary says AI used to identify potential fraud in Democratic-run states. The Trump administration has paused more than $1bn in Medicaid fund…

The two allegedly exploited refugees seeking resettlement services, billing Medicaid multiple times a week for entire households, without their knowledge, for…

With the federal Medicaid work requirement looming in January, Democrats are considering state legislation to call out big companies that employ workers enroll…

A crackdown on fraud in Ohio's home-health program is poised to be signed into law by Gov. Mike DeWine, after the bill passed the state's House and Senate with…


"My sister thinks Medicaid will take the house my mom and I own together."
DOJ unveils major fraud crackdown including a $30 million Ohio Medicaid scheme allegedly funding luxury cars and the FBI's new Most Wanted Fraudsters list.

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