AMERIGROUP Corporation

AmeriGroup Tennessee Inc., part of AmeriGroup Corp., closed its Memphis office recently, laying off 130 workers, according to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development. The company's office was at 1407 Union. Last year, the managed health care services company started offering health care coverage to 170,000 people enrolled in the state's TennCare program. In July 2008, the company said it would shutter subsidiary Memphis Managed Care Corp. on Nov. 1, following the company's losing bid for one of two TennCare contracts in West Tennessee, Memphis Business Journal reported July 4. AmeriGroup bought MMCC from the Regional Medical Center at Memphis in a $12 million deal late last year. The purchase was intended to put AmeriGroup in contention for the TennCare contracts. AmeriGroup said in July the closure would affect 160 Memphis employees and 70 employees around West Tennessee.