Arizona has given Avon’s Magellan Health Services Inc. a 14-month extension of a five-year contract to deliver behavioral health care for Medicaid patients and others in Maricopa County.
The original contract issued Sept. 1, 2007 was to expire June 30, 2012. It now ends Sept. 30, 2013.
Magellan spokesman David Carter declined to specify the total value of the contract, except to say that in 2010 the company’s took in $807 million in revenues under the contract.
Known as the Maricopa County Regional Behavioral Health Authority, the program covers more than 700,000 Medicaid members who reside in Maricopa County, and parts of Pinal County, with approximately 103,000 enrolled and receiving behavioral health services.
The program also administers crisis and medication services to those not eligible for Medicaid. Of those covered under this contract, nearly 21,000 are individuals with a serious mental illness.
