Blue Cross of Idaho will lay off 135 employees beginning in June, following the termination of a dual-eligible contract with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW).
Instead, Blue Cross says IDHW ended the decade-long contract a year early and instead awarded the contract to UnitedHealthcare and Molina Healthcare, both out-of-state insurers.
In a letter to the Department of Labor, Blue Cross of Idaho states it will be shutting down its team dedicated to working with the dual population…