A federal auditor has laid responsibility for hundreds of millions of dollars spent on dental and orthodontic procedures that may have been medically unnecessary squarely on the state agency that oversaw the program.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission had previously blamed Xerox Corp., the contractor it hired to pre-authorize the dental procedures. The commission in May canceled the contract and sued the company, doing business under the name Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership. In the lawsuit, the state asserted that “Xerox permitted an unprecedented loss of Medicaid funds to predatory and unscrupulous dental providers.”
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