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Ten Years. No Accountability. How Is Chris Koster Still Centene's General Counsel?

There is an old leadership principle: A leader's competence is measured by what they build, but their accountability is measured by what they ignore.

For nearly a decade at Centene, General Counsel Chris Koster has held primary responsibility for legal and regulatory oversight. Yet under his watch, the company has paid millions of dollars in state and federal settlements while the compliance infrastructure scrambled to contain the fallout.

To understand how a health plan incurs ten-figure regulatory penalties, one need only examine the appointment of Ashlee Knuckey as Chief Compliance Officer.

When Koster tapped Knuckey for the CCO seat, he elevated an individual directly from a law firm background, a litigator with no operational tenure in corporate compliance programs, no track record in managed care execution, and no prior experience as a Chief Compliance Officer.

What followed was four years of organizational turbulence disguised as a "compliance transformation."

Repeated internal escalations warned that the program lacked basic execution standards, structural clarity, and the foundational knowledge required to build an effective managed care compliance framework. These warnings were brushed aside. For four years, the enterprise operated in a state of compliance compromise, a persistent vulnerability that no amount of settlement checks can permanently ensure against.

Now, following Knuckey's exit, Koster has embarked on a series of "listening sessions" across the department. The timing invites obvious skepticism: where was he for the last four years?

Centene cannot pay its way out of fundamental governance failures indefinitely. Listening after the damage is done is not oversight, it is reputation management. If leadership failed to act on internal warnings when the compliance program was being dismantled, these listening tours are not a course correction. They are optics management.

Real protection requires leadership that understands what compliance actually entails on the ground. As Centene searches for a new Chief Compliance Officer, one directive must remain non-negotiable: do not hire another law firm attorney without operational compliance managed care experience. The next CCO must be a proven industry veteran who has successfully built and led compliance programs inside complex healthcare payers.

If Koster wants to demonstrate actual accountability now, he should step back from isolated decision-making and bring frontline Compliance team members directly into the interview process for the next CCO.

Otherwise, Sarah London needs to ask the hard question: after ten years and a billion dollars in regulatory costs, what, exactly, has Chris Koster been doing?!


Is burnout the norm these days?

It seems like over the past 2 years things have been getting progressively worse. We are expected to do everything faster with fewer resources. People are stressed and exhausted, and more end up leaving. A lot of positions are not being backfilled. We are constantly getting hounded about the 3 days in office policy (and all issues related to that). It just seems to be getting worse non-stop. Is there any hope, or is it better to look elsewhere?


"You get what you pay for"

Recently I went on vacation. People commented that I was more like myself after a few days.

When I returned to work the bitterness and frustration returned by lunchtime. The only path for me is out of here.

Incompetent and inept Accenture workers treated like the "stars of the show" when they are sh-t. Once something comes up complicated or they do not have For Dummies style steps to go through they are fked. And there are too many managers.

Why can't they fire some of them for a change? They won't have to do year end/bonus reviews or approve timesheets for the offshore workers. They have their own boss in their country who will lie for them, just like they did when they passed off unskilled workers as "experienced".

There used to be a saying "You get what you pay for". It needs to make a comeback. They are so high on the "savings" they will blast through this place with a chainsaw. Next level clown management. I noticed that in many cases only white men are kept after the cuts.

Really take stock of how you are when in office and when away for an appreciable amount of time. This place is toxic and should come with a warning label. At some point the money is just not worth it.

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How much is your formal notice before termination date and are they deducting that notice from your lump sum severance ?

If you got 8 weeks notice was your severance package 18 months less 8 weeks?

Is anyone getting longer formal notice? Did anyone get like 6 months formal notice so that severance was significantly reduced ? (18 months, less 6 months ?)


MyWork requests

Anyone have experience getting approved to work remotely to help a family member with medical issues? My mom lives with me and broke her hip a while back. She’s coming home from rehab soon and I need to work from home for a while to be safe. She’s fine with her walker so I don’t need to help her all day. With WPE changes, wondering if it’s even worth my time applying.


Questionable Hiring

This company has become so toxic. I am an internal candidate applying to do what I went to graduate school for and have over a decade of experience doing the tasks at the company. I have mentors very high up in the department. I reached out to the hiring manager when I applied and she wanted to interview me. 2 months went by under “pending further review.” I get my denial today stating I was qualified but they went with someone else. I email the manager asking for polite feedback. I never got the interview I was promised. When I asked for feedback? I got no response. Completely unprofessional.

What has happened? Is this just nepotism? I don’t think I want to work for a company that has such toxic hiring practices. This is just across the board. For every position you apply you get treated like trash, regardless of how many years you have with the company. It’s absolutely outrageous that we treat our internal candidates like this.

This just stiffens my resolve to leave this backwards company. So much for over a decade wasted at this company.

I am met


ACS nightmare

That was one heck of a call today. We are going to lose 50% of IOT customers and new leadership doesn’t care. Who’s ready for this wild ride?


Pond aeration

Am I imagining things or did the ponds in campus used to have fountains? There was a breeze the other day and the pond was smelling aweful. Did they turn the aeration off to try save some money?


No more RIFs

Get back to work!

Before you downvote or respond with a negative comment, think for a moment (be aware) why you are doing so. Is it because you want to be put out of the misery but this post pours cold water over it?