The new chief watchdog for the embattled Texas Health and Human Services Commission told lawmakers Monday he plans to right the department rocked by a contracting scandal by focusing not just on Medicaid and food stamp fraud, but all types of inefficiencies that waste taxpayer dollars in the $37 billion state social services empire.
“This mission is fraud, waste and abuse. Not fraud, only,” new HHSC Inspector General Stuart Bowen Jr. told the House Committee on Human Services. “And I want to take a deeper dive organizationally into the waste issue.”
via New Sheriff Arrives at Troubled Health Agency | The Texas Tribune.