Former HHSC Attorney Stick's Chief of Staff Facing Steep Pay Cut

[TexasTowelie]

One of three Texas Health and Human Services Commission employees put on paid administrative leave amid a probe into the agency’s contracting procedures is facing a 50 percent cut to his salary.

Cody Cazares, who was until recently the chief of staff for HHSC's top lawyer, Jack Stick, had his pay slashed from $112,000 to $55,000 effective Jan. 1, state records show. Reached by email, Cazares referred reporters to HHSC's communications office.

Stephanie Goodman, a spokeswoman for HHSC, said now that Stick is no longer the agency's chief counsel, "it was appropriate to review the position and what the job duties would be in the future."

Cazares' pay cut is the latest in a series of high-profile changes at the agency in the weeks since HHSC has come under fire for awarding a $110 million Medicaid fraud software deal to a relatively unknown company called 21 Century Technologies Inc.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/01/05/sticks-chief-staff-facing-steep-pay-cut/

[malokvale77]

1. Texas Health and Human Services Commission...

no longer provides any services. Every thing is outsourced to private companies who get paid a lot of taxpayer dollars to deny services.