South Carolina Blue Gets Medicare Claims Contract

Nationwide announced in November that it wanted to leave the Medicare program. The federal government picked South Carolina Blue as the successor through a competitive bidding process, Nationwide says.

Nationwide says 580 employees in its Medicare operations will be joining South Carolina Blue, and 40 will be joining DynCorp, Reston, Va., the company in charge of supervising the Ohio and West Virginia Part B programs.

South Carolina Blue handles Medicare claims through a unit called Palmetto Government Benefits Administrators. Palmetto already administers Medicare claims for North Carolina and South Carolina, and it also processes Medicare claims nationally for the Railroad Retirement Board, Nationwide says.