TYLER \u2014 Centene Company of Texas, L.P., has broken ground on a new facility in Tyler, and officials in the city say it will offer a big boost to the local economy. Centene projects 327 new employees in Tyler with an average salary and fringe benefits of $45,000. Tom Mullins with the Tyler Economic Development Council says annual payroll would be about $13.4 million within four years. Centene Company of Texas is a subsidiary of Centene Corporation, a publicly-traded Fortune 500 health insurance company with headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Company officials say it\u2019s expanding its customer base in Texas. The 50,000-square foot core claims processing facility will be located in the new Tyler Business and Technology Park on Earl Campbell Parkway. <\/p>\n
Centene Corporation, a leading manager of health care services, is the nation\u2019s fourth-largest Medicaid manager. The company is a multi-line healthcare enterprise that provides programs and related services to the rising number of under-insured and uninsured individuals. Many receive benefits provided under Medicaid, including the Children\u2019s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as well as Aged, Blind or Disabled (ABD), Foster Care, long-term care, other state-sponsored programs and Medicare (Special Needs Plans). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2014 Centene Company of Texas, L.P., has broken ground on a new facility in Tyler, and officials in the city say it will offer a big boost to the local economy. Centene projects 327 new employees in Tyler with an average salary and fringe benefits of $45,000. Tom Mullins with the Tyler Economic Development … Continue reading Centene Breaks Ground on New Facility<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 06:45:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224411,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224222\/revisions\/224411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}