Judge orders rebidding for Kentucky Medicaid contracts April 29, 2021 GMT FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky judge has tossed out contracts awarded to six health insurance companies, citing flaws in the state’s bidding process for $8 billion in state Medicaid business. Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd ordered the state to rebid the entire package, the Courier Journal reported. The flaws “cast a cloud over the process’s legitimacy,” Shepherd said in his order issued Wednesday. This would make the third time Kentucky will have to seek bids for the contracts, which are for outside companies to manage health care for people covered by Medicaid.