Why is no one talking about all the org changes today effective July 1 impacting Medicare? Anyone think this will lead to yet more layoffs?
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@nt She’s gone. It was announced already. See if you can keep up bb
@np best case they completely overpaid for the acquisition by orders of magnitude. Even if they have a long term plan they could've waited a couple years and gotten it at a much cheaper price. There isn't some genius plan that required them to buy it right before one of the most obvious tumultuous government landscapes possible.
Paula was fired, then the company had mass layoffs in virtually every division going top down until late February 2020. Rumor is COVID saved us from an acquisition.
A number of people were also rehired since the consulting company HCSC hired used a flawed point system. So total layoffs is unclear.
And Paula's $14 million in compensation in 2018 vs Maurice's $35 million in 2024 really shows the company's priorities. You certainly don't see THAT topic on Blue Pulse (or whatever that garbage is called).
@fg exactly what happened in 2019.
@yh you are not alone. Paula was fired because the board wanted a direction they was less about members and ethics and care and all about making the board big bucks. She knew it was wrong. Those of us who worked under her were saddened when she left and then the bloodbath got rid of many other great leaders.
I am happy for my job but ultimately know that this company doesn’t value anything but dollars at the top.
Everything feels broken since Paula was fired for resisting expansion (or getting acquired).
Now that Team Maurice won, we are saddled with Cigna for years while Maurice earns $25 million last year (when the company lost almost $2 billion), and $35 million in 2024. Good for him.
That's why I don't even bother with those infantilizing surveys, Town Halls, volunteer activities, or groups. None of it matters.
Compared to other companies, I'm still grateful for having a job at HCSC, but am completely checked out since the 2019-2020 changes.
Maurice is also chairman of the board, iirc... that makes him almost untouchable.
@nt No need to be snarky. Dr. Ernest's organizational update email indicates Dr. Jackson is leaving. Timing was not indicated.
@nt she wasn’t terminated but is leaving for a new job outside her f the company
@np HS was a poor decision and will not be successful but no one will say that out loud to the bombastic buffoons at the top.
@ea False, Dr Jackson has not been let go.
Look at the org chart if you know how.
@mn disagree - my guess is you’re a HS employee. HCSC always intended to use HS as a transition into national. You guys are looking at this, during this current climate, but most of this will not roll out anytime soon, it’ll be over multiple years. It’ll be very different times, and if there is a transition, politically, it’ll will be in their favor.
@hk I think that in fairness HCSC doesn't know what to do with Health Spring. That seem to have been a massive flop that could have cost any normal person their job, but Maurice, for some reason, seems to be immune to accountability. HCSC is a highly bureaucratic organization where things move at a snail pace. Now we are trying to pivot to become a national brand, and the success of that is TBD. In my opinion that will fail.
@jq who?
Josh and Chris gone...
@gr who said expect more re orgs?
Well of course no one is talking about it. HCSC clearly doesn't care about Medicare/HealthSpring.
@ej they said to expect further reorgs (they didn't mention layoffs/rifs) but Idk what else they can "reorg" without impacting headcount
I wouldn't want to be a Sr. Manager now with no direct reports. There is bound to be more layoffs coming.
@c9 we are getting top heavy again and unfortunately the ones at the top are clueless.
Is that it for the Medicare changes?
I think everyone expected worse.
@dz seems like they are moving towards functional alignments across all businesses. It will be interesting to see how that goes.
Not just Medicare. Nm Medicaid is being split up into three groups to separate the business which I’m guessing is to align with the rest of the company.
@cd looks like their senior leaders both left (or were let go) and Medicare teams split up into the HCSC orgs.
@as do you have more detail to offer?
Changes to many operational and IT teams with multiple Sr. Leader departures.
What org changes happened within Medicare? Any context for those of us outside of Medicare?
@OP also surprised that no one has mentioned until now. Hearing significant changes coming to the Healthspring teams.
Yeah I think layoffs are next - this is the part everyone talked about last year, where they’d start to look at overlap, and consolidation.
This is a huge reorg. and not just Medicare. It completely realigns all of sales and marketing and network/ provider relations business, nationally and locally, in every HCSC state. I’m shocked it didn’t go company wide with how much it changes.
@OP maybe it’s because the company is so (deliberately) siloed the org changes are not common knowledge.