Centene Corporation (NYSE: CNC) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement with Swope Community Enterprises to purchase two health plan entities serving 136,000 members. FirstGuard Inc.'s subsidiary, FirstGuard Health Plan Kansas, serves over 94,000 Medicaid and CHIP members throughout the state of Kansas, and FirstGuard Health Plan, Inc. serves 42,000 Medicaid members in Missouri (collectively, FirstGuard). This agreement marks Centene’s entry into two additional Medicaid mandated states.
