Judge Invalidates State Contract To Blue Cross
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A judge has invalidated a contract the state awarded to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana to administer the HMO plan for state workers, retirees and their dependents.
State District Judge Mike Caldwell agreed with attorneys for Humana and UnitedHealthcare on Wednesday that the contract awarded earlier this year to Blue Cross was not the contract that was bid upon.
Wendell Clark, an attorney for the state Office of Group Benefits, stressed that the judge's decision won't affect an emergency contract in effect for several months.
Humana attorney Phil Franco said the 90-day emergency contract issued July 1 and later renewed for another three months is the exact same contract Caldwell invalidated.
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