When Louisiana’s Medicaid contract with Healthy Blue ends on December 31, 216 jobs at Elevance Health’s Metairie office end with it. Elevance filed a layoff notice with the state on September 15, and the cuts take effect December 31, 2026. The company is leaving Louisiana’s Medicaid business after serving it since 2012.
The same date decides what happens to Healthy Blue’s Medicaid members. Louisiana’s health department says Healthy Blue stops being available to Medicaid members on January 1, 2027. Members have until November 16 to pick a new plan, or the state picks one for them.
A contract ends, and the jobs follow
Becker’s Payer Issues reported on September 21 that Elevance is winding down its Louisiana Medicaid business. Healthy Blue is a joint venture of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and Elevance, and its state contract expires at year’s end. The 216 layoffs are in Elevance’s Metairie office…