Health Net Federal Services (Centene)
Health Net Federal Services (Centene) — Legacy community-care administrator (PC3 / Veterans Choice), exited VA 2018 — Centene · hnfs.com.
What it sells
Health Net Federal Services, a Centene subsidiary, was one of the VA’s two original community-care middlemen, administering the eastern Patient-Centered Community Care (PC3) and Veterans Choice networks until its VA contract ended September 30, 2018. Its main federal role was TRICARE West, which it lost in the T-5 recompete (TriWest took over Jan 1, 2025).
The contract and the money
PC3 master IDIQ (2013): Health Net held 42 task orders with $18.22 billion in combined POTENTIAL value (potential value, not obligations paid).
- $18.22 billion potential value (PC3) — Health Net’s task-order potential on the PC3 vehicle, per the FPDS-derived vehicle record. (GovTribe — PC3 vehicle record)
On the record
What the government’s own watchdogs and prosecutors have published about this company, newest first. The summaries are ours; the findings are theirs.
- Bulk Payments Made under Patient-Centered Community Care/Veterans Choice Program Contracts (VA OIG 17-02713-231) (2018-09-06) — Auditing bulk payments to the two PC3/Choice administrators (Health Net and TriWest) over one year, the OIG estimated $101.4 million in overpayments: $66.1 million in duplicate payments (142,493 duplicate payments to Health Net; 111,148 to TriWest) plus $35.3 million in other errors — $23.9 million of that attributed to Health Net. The OIG blamed ineffective VA community-care controls that failed to identify improper claims.
If this company is in your chain
- Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If this company is in your veteran’s chain, your documents belong on the record next to ours.
- VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.
Middlemen data checked 2026-10-25 against the sources cited on this page. If a figure or a fact here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.