Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Variable Interest Entities [Abstract]
Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)	Variable Interest Entities (VIEs) The Joseph M. Molina, M.D. Professional Corporations (JMMPC) were created to further advance our direct delivery business. Effective September 30, 2017, we terminated our relationship with JMMPC in Florida, Michigan, Washington, and Utah. Therefore, the agreements described below, for all of our health plans other than those in California and New Mexico, were terminated effective September 30, 2017. JMMPC’s primary shareholder is Dr. J. Mario Molina, who is a member of our board of directors. Dr. Molina is paid no salary and receives no dividends in connection with his work for, or ownership of, JMMPC. JMMPC provides primary care medical services through its employed physicians and other medical professionals. JMMPC also provides certain specialty referral services to our California health plan members through a contracted provider network. The health plans had entered into primary care services agreements with JMMPC, under which the health plans paid $29 million and $31 million to JMMPC for health care services provided in the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and $89 million and $92 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. JMMPC does not have agreements to provide professional medical services with any other entities. Our wholly owned subsidiary, Molina Medical Management, Inc. (MMM), had also entered into services agreements with JMMPC to provide clinic facilities, clinic administrative support staff, patient scheduling services and medical supplies to JMMPC. For the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, JMMPC paid $12 million and $13 million to MMM for clinic administrative services, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, JMMPC paid $38 million and $40 million, respectively, to MMM for clinic administrative services. As of September 30, 2017, we determined that JMMPC is a VIE, and that we are its primary beneficiary. We reached this conclusion under the power and benefits criterion model according to GAAP. Specifically, we had the power to direct the activities (excluding clinical decisions) that most significantly affected JMMPC’s economic performance, and the obligation to absorb losses or right to receive benefits that were potentially significant to the VIE, under the agreements described above. Because we were its primary beneficiary, we consolidated JMMPC. JMMPC’s assets may be used to settle only JMMPC’s obligations, and JMMPC’s creditors have no recourse to the general credit of Molina Healthcare, Inc. As of September 30, 2017, JMMPC had total assets of $20 million, and total liabilities of $24 million. As of December 31, 2016, JMMPC had total assets of $18 million, and total liabilities of $18 million. Our maximum exposure to loss as a result of our involvement with JMMPC is generally limited to the amounts needed to fund JMMPC’s ongoing payroll, employee benefits and medical care costs associated with JMMPC’s specialty referral activities.

Variable Interest Entities (VIEs)

The Joseph M. Molina, M.D. Professional Corporations (JMMPC) were created to further advance our direct delivery business. Effective September 30, 2017, we terminated our relationship with JMMPC in Florida, Michigan, Washington, and Utah. Therefore, the agreements described below, for all of our health plans other than those in California and New Mexico, were terminated effective September 30, 2017.

JMMPC’s primary shareholder is Dr. J. Mario Molina, who is a member of our board of directors. Dr. Molina is paid no salary and receives no dividends in connection with his work for, or ownership of, JMMPC. JMMPC provides primary care medical services through its employed physicians and other medical professionals. JMMPC also provides certain specialty referral services to our California health plan members through a contracted provider network. The health plans had entered into primary care services agreements with JMMPC, under which the health plans paid $29 million and $31 million to JMMPC for health care services provided in the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, and $89 million and $92 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively. JMMPC does not have agreements to provide professional medical services with any other entities.

Our wholly owned subsidiary, Molina Medical Management, Inc. (MMM), had also entered into services agreements with JMMPC to provide clinic facilities, clinic administrative support staff, patient scheduling services and medical supplies to JMMPC. For the three months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, JMMPC paid $12 million and $13 million to MMM for clinic administrative services, respectively. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, JMMPC paid $38 million and $40 million, respectively, to MMM for clinic administrative services.

As of September 30, 2017, we determined that JMMPC is a VIE, and that we are its primary beneficiary. We reached this conclusion under the power and benefits criterion model according to GAAP. Specifically, we had the power to direct the activities (excluding clinical decisions) that most significantly affected JMMPC’s economic performance, and the obligation to absorb losses or right to receive benefits that were potentially significant to the VIE, under the agreements described above. Because we were its primary beneficiary, we consolidated JMMPC. JMMPC’s assets may be used to settle only JMMPC’s obligations, and JMMPC’s creditors have no recourse to the general credit of Molina Healthcare, Inc. As of September 30, 2017, JMMPC had total assets of $20 million, and total liabilities of $24 million. As of December 31, 2016, JMMPC had total assets of $18 million, and total liabilities of $18 million.

Our maximum exposure to loss as a result of our involvement with JMMPC is generally limited to the amounts needed to fund JMMPC’s ongoing payroll, employee benefits and medical care costs associated with JMMPC’s specialty referral activities.