Reporter's notebook: J.P. Morgan's 2021 health conference Modern Healthcare Illustration / Getty Images The Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference kicked off Monday virtually. Reporters Tara Bannow, Jessica Kim Cohen, Nona Tepper and Ginger Christ will provide updates and daily observations here throughout the conference. You can also find additional stories on ModernHealthcare.com or Twitter. Thursday, Jan. 14 More states seeking to recoup Medicaid funds cut into Molina’s bottom-line Three more states are now aiming to claw back funds that they say Molina Healthcare’s Medicaid plans did not spend on medical care, according to CEO Joe Zubretsky. California, Ohio and Michigan all submitted additional risk-sharing payments to the CMS in late December. Seven other states where Molina offers Medicaid plans have also enacted temporary retroactive rate refunds. California seeks to recoup payments from July 2019, and Michigan aims to take back funds from October 2019, Zubretsky said. He did not mention Ohio’s timeline request for back payments. He said he believes CMS will approve the charges, which he called “aggressively overreached” with states aiming to claw back whatever they can to cover the costs brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.