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TexasTowelie

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Thu Dec 18, 2014, 04:51 AM Dec 2014

Texas Medicaid fraud contract unfairly awarded to 21CT, rivals say

Industry rivals of an Austin tech company, whose pending $90 million no-bid contract extension was stripped last week, say Texas health officials misled them when they competed for a Medicaid fraud contract, which they now allege was tailor-made for the winner, 21CT.

Jack Stick, the top attorney for the Health and Human Services Commission who steered millions of dollars in business to 21CT, resigned Friday amid an American-Statesman investigation, which has found that officials exaggerated the success of Medicaid data investigations and ignored early signs of Stick’s favoritism to the company.

Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/texas-medicaid-fraud-contract-unfairly-awarded-to-/njWHc/ (subscription required)

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Related thread:
Top Lawyer at State Health Agency Resigns Over Contract

http://www.democraticunderground.com/107822490

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Texas Medicaid fraud contract unfairly awarded to 21CT, rivals say (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2014 OP
The fraudsters looking for medicaid fraud riversedge Dec 2014 #1
Hire a crook, to catch a crook? Downwinder Dec 2014 #2
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