[9] [10] As of December 31, 2012: Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)[11] Seniors and People with Disabilities (S/PD)[12] Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)[13] FamilyCare[14] Medicare Advantage[15] In 2007, Amerigroup developed the National Advisory Board (NAB) to focus on meeting the needs of seniors and people with disabilities, who are a significant proportion of its clients.
Convened by Lex Frieden, who was instrumental in conceiving and drafting the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the NAB is made up of 19 community advocates, health care experts and academics.
[16] The NAB advocated that the modernized health care infrastructure be required to meet the needs of people with disabilities and seniors.
Former Executive Cleveland Tyson provided federal prosecutors with evidence that Amerigroup was systematically declining services to low-income pregnant women in Illinois from 2001 to 2003.
Their contract with the state required that they enroll all eligible clients, but prosecutors submitted emails showing that Amerigroup had a policy of targeting healthy enrollees and specifically excluded pregnant women and others with expensive conditions.