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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 8-K
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Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 29, 2015
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MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

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Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (562) 435-3666

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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On October 29, 2015, Molina Healthcare, Inc. issued a press release announcing its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2015. The full text of the press release is included as Exhibit 99.1 to this report. The information contained in the websites cited in the press release is not part of this report.

The information in this Form 8-K and the exhibit attached hereto shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except as expressly set forth by specific reference in such a filing.

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit 99.1

Molina Healthcare Reports Third Quarter 2015 Results

LONG BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--October 29, 2015--Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH):

• Net income per diluted share, continuing operations, of $0.77 for the quarter, compared with $0.33 in 2014.
• Adjusted net income per diluted share, continuing operations,¹ of $0.89 for the quarter, compared with $0.48 for 2014.
• Total revenue of $3.6 billion, up 45% over third quarter 2014 and 2% over second quarter 2015.

Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: MOH) today reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2015.

“Momentum in our business continues to grow as we execute on our priorities of revenue growth, profit improvement and business diversification,” said J. Mario Molina M.D., chief executive officer of Molina Healthcare, Inc. “I am very proud of our performance so far this year, and I look forward to welcoming the employees and patients of Providence Human Services into the Molina family.” As previously announced, the Company has agreed to acquire Providence Human Services, LLC and Providence Community Services, LLC, both wholly owned subsidiaries of The Providence Service Corporation, in an all-cash transaction.

Overview of Financial Results, Continuing Operations

Financial results for the third quarter of 2015 improved significantly over the same quarter of 2014 due to higher revenue, greater medical cost efficiency, and full state reimbursement of the Affordable Care Act Health Insurer Fee (HIF).

Income from continuing operations, before tax expense, increased to $98 million in the third quarter of 2015, from $24 million in the third quarter of 2014.

Premium revenue increased approximately 46% in the third quarter of 2015, compared with the third quarter of 2014, due to increased Medicaid expansion, integrated Medicare-Medicaid Plan and Marketplace enrollment, growth in the Company’s Illinois health plan, and the start-up of the Company’s Puerto Rico health plan earlier this year.

Medical care costs as a percent of premium revenue (the “medical care ratio”) decreased to 89.3% in the third quarter of 2015, from 90.6% in the third quarter of 2014.

General and administrative expenses as a percentage of total revenue (the “general and administrative expense ratio”) increased to 8.0% in the third quarter of 2015, from 7.2% in the third quarter of 2014, primarily due to broker and exchange fees associated with the Company’s Marketplace program.

Health Insurer Fee Update

The Company has secured full reimbursement for the Medicaid portion of its expense under the HIF. During the third quarter of 2015, the Company recognized as revenue certain amounts of HIF reimbursement due from Michigan and Utah for prior periods. These amounts represented approximately $8 million ($0.08 per diluted share) of HIF revenue related to 2014 and approximately $17 million ($0.18 per diluted share) related to the first two quarters of 2015.

The amount of HIF reimbursement not recognized in the third quarter of 2014 was approximately $6 million ($0.07 per diluted share) and approximately $37 million ($0.49 per diluted share) for the nine months ended September 30, 2014.

Texas Health Plan Quality Revenue Update

As previously disclosed, the Company has deferred recognition of that portion of its quality related revenue in Texas that is based upon measures for which the Company does not have historical information, clear definitions, and clarity around minimum standards. Such revenue is estimated to be approximately $20 million for all of 2014 and $17 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2015. The Company has not recognized any of this revenue through September 30, 2015.

Conference Call

The Company’s management will host a conference call and webcast to discuss its third quarter results at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 29, 2015. The number to call for the interactive teleconference is (212) 231-2926. A telephonic replay of the conference call will be available from 7:00 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, October 29, 2015, through 6:00 p.m. on Friday, October 30, 2015, by dialing (800) 633-8284 and entering confirmation number 21777769. A live audio broadcast of Molina Healthcare’s conference call will be available on the Company’s website, molinahealthcare.com. A 30-day online replay will be available approximately an hour following the conclusion of the live broadcast.

About Molina Healthcare

Molina Healthcare, Inc., a FORTUNE 500 company, provides managed health care services under the Medicaid and Medicare programs and through the state insurance marketplaces. Through our locally operated health plans in 11 states across the nation and in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Molina currently serves approximately 3.5 million members. Dr. C. David Molina founded our company in 1980 as a provider organization serving low-income families in Southern California. Today, we continue his mission of providing high quality and cost-effective health care to those who need it most. For more information about Molina Healthcare, please visit our website at molinahealthcare.com.

Notes:

1. Adjusted net income per diluted share, continuing operations, is a non-GAAP financial measure used by management as a supplemental metric in evaluating its financial performance, its financing and business decisions, and in forecasting and planning for future periods. This measure is not determined in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (GAAP) and should not be viewed as a substitute for the most directly comparable GAAP measure, which is diluted net income per share, continuing operations. See below for reconciliations of the Company’s non-GAAP measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This earnings release contains “forward-looking statements” regarding the Company’s plans, expectations, and anticipated future events. Actual results could differ materially due to numerous known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Those known risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to the following:

• uncertainties associated with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the Medicaid expansion, the insurance marketplaces, the effect of various implementing regulations, and uncertainties regarding the Medicare-Medicaid dual eligible demonstration programs in California, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas;
• management of our medical costs, including seasonal flu patterns and rates of utilization that are consistent with our expectations, and our ability to reduce over time the high medical costs commonly associated with new patient populations;
• federal or state medical cost expenditure floors, administrative cost and profit ceilings, premium stabilization programs, profit sharing arrangements, and conflicting interpretations thereof;
• the interpretation and implementation of at-risk premium rules regarding the achievement of certain quality measures, including 2014 and 2015 at-risk premium rules in the state of Texas;
• cyber-attacks or other privacy or data security incidents resulting in an inadvertent unauthorized disclosure of protected health information;
• the success of our new health plan in Puerto Rico, including the successful resolution of the Puerto Rico debt crisis and the payment of all amounts due under our Medicaid contract;
• newly FDA-approved specialty drugs such as Sovaldi, Olysio, Harvoni, and other specialty drugs or generic drugs that are exorbitantly priced but not factored into the calculation of our capitated rates;
• significant budget pressures on state governments and their potential inability to maintain current rates, to implement expected rate increases, or to maintain existing benefit packages or membership eligibility thresholds or criteria, including the resolution of the Illinois budget impasse and continued payment of our Illinois health plan;
• the accurate estimation of incurred but not reported or paid medical costs across our health plans;
• retroactive adjustments to premium revenue or accounting estimates which require adjustment based upon subsequent developments, including Medicaid pharmaceutical rebates or retroactive premium rate increases;
• efforts by states to recoup previously paid amounts;
• the success of our efforts to retain existing government contracts and to obtain new government contracts in connection with state requests for proposals (RFPs) in both existing and new states;
• the continuation and renewal of the government contracts of both our health plans and Molina Medicaid Solutions and the terms under which such contracts are renewed;
• complications, member confusion, or enrollment backlogs related to the annual renewal of Medicaid coverage;
• government audits and reviews, and any fine, enrollment freeze, or monitoring program that may result therefrom;
• changes with respect to our provider contracts and the loss of providers;
• approval by state regulators of dividends and distributions by our health plan subsidiaries;
• changes in funding under our contracts as a result of regulatory changes, programmatic adjustments, or other reforms;
• high dollar claims related to catastrophic illness;
• the favorable or unfavorable resolution of litigation, arbitration, or administrative proceedings, including a pending qui tam action in California, and the litigation commenced against us by the state of Louisiana alleging that Molina Medicaid Solutions and its predecessors used an incorrect reimbursement formula for the payment of pharmaceutical claims;
• the relatively small number of states in which we operate health plans;
• our management of a portion of College Health Enterprises’ hospital in Long Beach, California;
• the effect on our Los Angeles County subcontract of Centene’s acquisition of Health Net;
• the availability of adequate financing on acceptable terms to fund and capitalize our expansion and growth, repay our outstanding indebtedness at maturity and meet our liquidity needs, including the interest expense and other costs associated with such financing;
• the failure of a state in which we operate to renew its federal Medicaid waiver;
• changes generally affecting the managed care or Medicaid management information systems industries;
• increases in government surcharges, taxes, and assessments;
• newly emergent viruses or widespread epidemics, and associated public alarm;
• changes in general economic conditions, including unemployment rates;
• the sufficiency of our funds on hand to pay the amounts due upon conversion of our outstanding notes;
• increasing competition and consolidation in the Medicaid industry;

and numerous other risk factors, including those discussed in the Company’s periodic reports and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These reports can be accessed under the investor relations tab of the Company’s website or on the SEC’s website at sec.gov. Given these risks and uncertainties, we can give no assurances that the Company’s forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate, or that any other results or events projected or contemplated by the Company’s forward-looking statements will in fact occur, and we caution investors not to place undue reliance on these statements. All forward-looking statements in this release represent the Company’s judgment as of October 29, 2015, and we disclaim any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company’s expectations.

MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
UNAUDITED NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES

The Company uses two non-GAAP financial measures as supplemental metrics in evaluating its financial performance, making financing and business decisions, and forecasting and planning for future periods. For these reasons, management believes such measures are useful supplemental measures to investors in comparing the Company’s performance to the performance of other public companies in the health care industry. These non-GAAP financial measures should be considered as supplements to, and not as substitutes for or superior to, GAAP measures.

The first of these non-GAAP measures is earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). The following table reconciles net income, which the Company believes to be the most comparable GAAP measure, to EBITDA.

The second of these non-GAAP measures is adjusted net income, continuing operations (including adjusted net income per diluted share). The following table reconciles net income from continuing operations, which the Company believes to be the most comparable GAAP measure, to adjusted net income, continuing operations.

The following table provides the details of the Company’s medical claims and benefits payable as of the dates indicated:

MOLINA HEALTHCARE, INC.
UNAUDITED CHANGE IN MEDICAL CLAIMS AND BENEFITS PAYABLE
(Dollars in thousands, except per-member amounts)

The Company’s claims liability includes a provision for adverse claims deviation based on historical experience and other factors including, but not limited to, variations in claims payment patterns, changes in utilization and cost trends, known outbreaks of disease, and large claims. The Company’s reserving methodology is consistently applied across all periods presented. The amounts displayed for “Components of medical care costs related to: Prior period” represent the amount by which the Company’s original estimate of claims and benefits payable at the beginning of the period were more than the actual amount of the liability based on information (principally the payment of claims) developed since that liability was first reported. The following table presents the components of the change in medical claims and benefits payable from continuing and discontinued operations combined for the periods indicated:

CONTACT:
Molina Healthcare, Inc.
Juan José Orellana, 562-435-3666, ext. 111143
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