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Molina Healthcare

Public spending, contract decisions, workforce disclosures and executive leadership.

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Florida / Centene / Molina / Contract transition

Published Not stated · Added 2026-10-09

Event date: 2026-10-01

Florida Children’s Medical Services Plan moved from Sunshine Health to Molina on October 1

Sunshine Health’s current member page confirms that the Children’s Medical Services Health Plan is now operated by Molina Healthcare and members transferred automatically October 1. AHCA identifies Molina as the selected statewide operator. The source pages do not state their publication dates; this is a newly verified historical transition, not a new October 9 award.

Why it matters: AHCA says existing appointments, prescriptions and authorizations will be honored. Those commitments require monitoring for actual continuity. The transition concerns this specialized plan, not all Sunshine Medicaid business. No contract value or member harm is inferred.

Transition confirmed by outgoing operator; state continuity commitments; publication dates unstated

Sunshine Health / AHCA: source

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Review completed October 13, 2026. Added Humana's announced CenterWell clinic joint venture with BlackRock. The transaction is pending regulatory approval and the stated $2.8 billion is the value of WCAS's equity stake, not proceeds to Humana or a fine.

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Analysis

What the documented record shows.

Payment delays can affect provider stability

DMHC directly confirmed the $1 million fine was paid and described provider-payment remediation. Provider reimbursements and interest are separate from the penalty. Primary source

A programming error can block medication

CMS found that an inaccurate eligibility file caused claims rejection despite active coverage. This is a concrete mechanism linking operations to medication access. Primary source

A loss and an award need separate labels

Virginia operations ceased after a failed procurement challenge, while Georgia remains an intent to award under protest. They are not equivalent contract outcomes.

01 / Financial accountability

Fines, settlements and audit findings.

Amounts retain their original category and payment status. There is no combined “fines paid” total.

2022-06-17 · Molina Healthcare of CaliforniaFine / Provider dispute resolution$1,000,000

Paid, explicitly confirmed by DMHC

DMHC found 29,124 provider disputes were not acknowledged or resolved on time.

Separately reported remediation: $80.3 million provider payments plus $1.8 million interest. The headline says $82.2 million; rounded components sum to $82.1 million. Not additional fines.

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2022-06-21 · Pathways, former Molina subsidiarySettlement / MassHealth behavioral health$4,625,000

Agreed; payment not independently confirmed

DOJ alleged services provided without required professional licensing or supervision during 2015–2018.

Molina owned the relevant business from November 2015 to March 2018. Settlement resolves allegations.

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2025-04-01 · Molina, contract H5649Fine / Medicare Part D$285,476

CMS imposed; payment and appeal disposition not confirmed

Eligibility programming errors led the PBM to reject medication claims for members with active coverage.

CMS identified delayed access, out-of-pocket costs or failure to receive medications as actual or substantially likely effects.

Primary source

02 / Public contracts

Contract awards, losses and exits.

Intent to award is identified separately from final selection and an operational contract. Announcement dates may differ from service start dates.

Date	State / program	Outcome / status	Record
2024-12-02	Georgia Georgia Families	Intent to award Protest phase; NOA pending in state update of 2026-04-23	Apparent selection. Existing contracts extended through June 2027; implementation not confirmed. Primary source
2023-02-01	Ohio Next Generation Medicaid	Selected / launched State confirms program launch	Listed among participating plans in Ohio launch announcement. Primary source
2022-12-30	California Medi-Cal	Award / revised footprint Final agreement reported for 2024	Direct contracts in Riverside, San Bernardino, Sacramento and San Diego; Los Angeles subcontract. Revised expected revenue below initial award announcement. Primary source
2024-07-19	Florida Statewide Medicaid Managed Care	Award Company confirms award	Miami-Dade and Monroe counties. Notice expected January 2025 start; subsequent actual start not verified here. Primary source
2025-07-01	Virginia Cardinal Care	Lost / not renewed Operations ceased, per 2025 Form 10-K	Molina was not selected; withdrew court challenge in May 2025 and ceased operations July 1. Primary source
2024-05-22	Wisconsin Family Care, region 5	Intent to award Company reports notice of intent	Expansion into a long-term care region; final execution not independently verified here. Primary source
2024	Michigan Medicaid managed care	Award Company announced October 2024 start	Renewal / expansion reported in company award announcement. Primary source

03 / Workforce

Reductions and staffing questions.

Costs below are disclosed accounting charges. They are not fines, employee counts or proof of a care impact.

Year	Disclosed cost	What is established	Source
2023	Not quantified	Company earnings disclosure identifies one-time termination benefits in a combined adjustment. Standalone severance amount and number of eliminated jobs not established.	Primary source

Layoffs followed by the same job postings: not yet verified.

Matching requires the employing entity, duties, location, job title, requisition and dated layoff notice and advertisement. General hiring after layoffs does not establish that the same positions were replaced.

04 / Executive leadership

Pay, benefits and turnover.

2025 named executive compensation

Reported SEC summary compensation totals include grant-date stock and option values. These are not cash take-home pay. Roles reflect the 2025 disclosure; partial-year and former executives are included.

Executive / disclosed role	Salary	All other compensation	Reported total
Joseph Zubretsky CEO	$1,600,000	$540,795	$18,340,783
Mark Keim CFO	$1,000,000	$312,049	$7,562,184
James Woys Executive	$800,000	$56,409	$5,356,518
Jeff Barlow Executive	$685,000	$51,037	$4,395,324
Debra Bacon Executive	$675,000	$48,031	$2,931,727

2026 proxy: Summary Compensation Table. Full components are in the workbook.

CEO compensation history collected so far

Year	Executive	Reported total
2021	Joseph Zubretsky	$19,961,698
2022	Joseph Zubretsky	$22,131,256
2023	Joseph Zubretsky	$21,491,723
2024	Joseph Zubretsky	$21,944,109
2025	Joseph Zubretsky	$18,340,783

Earlier-year extraction is incomplete. Missing years are not zero compensation; see research gaps below.

Selected benefits and other compensation components

Executive	2025 component	Amount
Joseph Zubretsky	Security	$456,000
Joseph Zubretsky	Life insurance	$9,144
Joseph Zubretsky	401(k) match	$12,308
Joseph Zubretsky	Liquidated paid time off	$61,538
Joseph Zubretsky	Other	$1,805
Mark Keim	Lodging	$250,000

Components are already included in all other compensation; do not add them to reported total pay. Coverage of detailed benefits is partial.

Documented leadership changes

Effective / announcement date	Role	Change / source
2021-02-17	CFO	Mark Keim succeeded retiring Thomas Tran. Primary source

No CEO change is identified in the sources collected here. This is not a complete executive or board turnover census.

Sources, methods and limits

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Research window: January 2020–October 6, 2026. Earlier conduct is included when an action was announced during the window. Sources prioritize regulators, state procurement notices, SEC filings and company disclosures. Company award announcements are identified as such.

Subsidiaries are grouped under their parent, with the entity and business identified. Former subsidiaries are labeled. A source link appears with each record. Reporting an allegation is not a finding of liability.

Initial collection, not a complete inventory of every action, subsidiary or procurement from 2020–2026.
Payment confirmation and appeal dispositions remain incomplete; assessed or agreed amounts are not described as paid.
Earlier executive compensation extraction is incomplete: 2020 all companies; 2021 CVS; 2022 UnitedHealth. Earlier non-CEO pay and benefits remain to be extracted.
2026 annual executive compensation is not yet reported for a completed fiscal year. Positions in the 2025 pay table reflect that disclosure, not a current leadership directory.
CVS detailed benefit breakdown remains to be extracted. All other compensation is not synonymous with benefits; it can include severance and other items.
No matched evidence establishes elimination and later reposting of the same positions. Need job title, requisition, duties, location, employing entity and dated notices/postings.
Initial contract collection is selective. No Humana contract loss is documented here; that is a coverage gap, not proof that none occurred.
Pharmacy, PBM, employer insurance and workers compensation actions are labeled separately from Medicaid / Medicare health-plan actions.
Unequal search coverage and company size prevent a defensible ranking of companies by the counts or amounts in this collection.

Analysis expresses questions and inferences from the listed records. It does not establish causation between executive pay, staffing changes and member outcomes.

The record at a glance

Historical base: October 6, 2026, with dated targeted updates in the source records. Coverage is incomplete and differs by company. These charts are not rankings of conduct. Zero means no qualifying record in this collection.