{"id":38287,"date":"2025-11-13T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38287\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:38:06","slug":"elevance-seeks-to-keep-nyc-health-plan-contract-in-secretive-legal-fight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/38287\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevance Seeks to Keep NYC Health Plan Contract in Secretive Legal Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/ELV:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Elevance Health Inc.<\/a> is trying to keep a major contract to provide health benefits for New York City public employees by arguing the city was \u201carbitrary and capricious\u201d when it gave the lucrative award to its rivals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The contract to manage billions in public spending is supposed to switch over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/olr\/health\/healthhome.page\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Jan. 1<\/a>. Elevance has been fighting to keep it for almost two years in <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/DocumentList?docketId=AkDZ0My39DCirgyx2MbziQ==&amp;display=all\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">litigation<\/a> that a state court has kept under seal. Now, an <a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/DocumentList?docketId=v8d4TjDKoP2wBW2I3r_PLUS_MDg==&amp;display=all\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">appeal<\/a> that was briefly made public has revealed for the first time Elevance\u2019s protest over how the decision was made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elevance Health Inc. is trying to keep a major contract to provide health benefits for New York City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3339,22289,22288,1603,609,13453,1213,2710,9,24,56,63,65,64,22290],"class_list":["post-38287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-cities","tag-daniel-j-pollak","tag-elevance-health-inc","tag-finance","tag-government","tag-industries","tag-labor","tag-law","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-unitedhealth-group-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}