A US-based health insurance company, formerly named Anthem, that provides health services to youth jails and criminal legal programs.
Elevance Health, Inc., formerly named Anthem, is a health insurance company headquartered in Indianapolis. It is one of the largest for-profit health insurers in the U.S. based on membership, serving approximately 47 million people in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Elevance Health subsidiary Amerigroup provides behavioral health and case management services for people “transitioning in and out of incarceration,” including from city, county, tribal, and youth jails. The company is the sole provider of the youth welfare case management system for the State of Georgia’s Department of Community Health. In 2014, Georgia transitioned from regional providers to a statewide system that offers health services to children in foster care, receiving adoption assistance, and in youth jails.
Amerigroup and several other Elevance subsidiaries provide health plans, case management services, and more to state Medicaid programs that cover youth jailing and probation. These subsidiaries include Carelon Health (formerly Aspire Health), Carelon Behavioral Health (formerly Beacon Health Options), HealthLink, and UniCare.
Elevance Health (then Anthem) subsidiary Healthcore previously contracted with the Florida Department of Corrections for physical therapy services and was therefore included in Worth Rises’ 2020 report on companies involved in the prison industry. This contract expired in 2015.