Health and Human Services Commission Inspector General Doug Wilson resigned Friday, scarcely more than an hour after the state auditor announced it would launch an investigation into no-bid contracts brokered under his watch in conjunction with an anti-public corruption at … Read More
*Editor’s note: This story has been updated. As questions continue to surround agreements made between the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and a contractor, a legislator is calling for investigators to get involved. State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, on … Read More
AUSTIN – The Travis County District Attorney’s office and the Texas State Auditor will investigate how a company here won $110 million in state contracts without any competition, officials announced Thursday as the deals drew increasing condemnation and calls for … Read More
A spokesman for House Speaker Joe Straus on Thursday said the House will propose “a budget in January that requires much more stringent reporting on contracts by state agencies and institutions.” Jason Embry sent the statement in response to inquiries … Read More
Within the last 24 hours, major media in Texas have published stories on their continuing investigations into former OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement Jack Stick and his allegedly favored treatment of an Austin software company for Medicaid fraud detection … Read More
AUSTIN – The powerful Texas Health and Human Services Commission official who resigned last week stretched the boundaries of a little-known state purchasing program to ensure a local company would not face competition for a $110 million contract, according to … Read More
Jack Stick resigned last week as top lawyer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Nine months before Jack Stick resigned as the top lawyer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission amid concerns over a $110 million no-bid … Read More
ndustry 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 … Read More
Jack Stick, one of the elite health officials and former chief counsel for Texas Health and Human Services resigned Friday. This development took place because Stick had awarded $110 million contract to the Austin tech company 21CT in a no-bid … Read More
During a March 2012 webinar, a top Texas health official said his office was implementing a revolutionary tool to help Medicaid fraud investigators find bad guys: graph pattern analysis.“Graph pattern analysis is really the next line of defense for this … Read More
It is now official – Jack Stick, HHSC Chief Counsel and former OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement, has resigned from HHSC over published allegations of interference in the HHSC contracting process on two contracts – one for data mining software … Read More
The top lawyer for the state’s sprawling health agency has resigned amid questions raised by an American-Statesman investigation into his relationship with an Austin technology company to which he was steering $110 million in contracts. Jack Stick, chief counsel for … Read More
The top lawyer at the Texas state agency overseeing all health and human services has resigned following concerns about a $110 million no-bid contract. Jack Stick, the general counsel at the Health and Human Services Commission, offered his resignation after … Read More
Jack Stick, the top lawyer for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, is resigning his post amid a crumbling state contract with data warehouse 21CT. The commission’s Office of Inspector General, or OIG, has been under scrutiny for the … Read More
The Statesman reports today that HHSC’s chief counsel Jack Stick, former OIG director for enforcement, who steered business to an Austin software firm for OIG Medicaid fraud detection data mining software, has for years had close connections to the firm’s … Read More
The state health agency’s top lawyer, instrumental in steering more than $110 million in contracts to an Austin tech company, is a former business partner with that company’s lobbyist, state records show. Records show that beginning in 2002 Jack Stick, … Read More
As Texas’ top health officials steer $110 million in no-bid contracts to an Austin tech company they say is revolutionizing Medicaid fraud investigations, the state’s top contract manager says those contracts are too loosely written and raise questions about what … Read More
AUSTIN — A top state official is stopped for drunken driving and refuses breath and blood tests. Police cite erratic driving and uncooperative behavior, and critics say the official is unfit to serve in public office. This is not the … Read More
The following article was published today in the Texas Tribune, authored by Christine Ayala and Jay Root. UPDATE: The same article was republished in the New York Times with the title “A Texas Official’s D.W.I. Case Is Being Seen in … Read More
The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday and today that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission ended a tentative contract with Truven Health Analytics of Ann Arbor, Mich., because of potential insider influence for the company. The contract was for a major “enterprise data … Read More
AUSTIN – Texas health officials abruptly have pulled the plug on a major data project amid concerns about its cost and suggestions the tentative contract winner was receiving inside information from state negotiators. The decision to end negotiations with Truven … Read More
Jack Stick’s DWI hearing is being delayed once again. Now until August 28th. This is almost two years since his arrest in Austin back in September, 2012. The Travis County Criminal Courts docket search entry can be found here.
The probable next Chief Legal Counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Jack Stick has had his DWI hearing again delayed, now to May 12th. The original arrest date was September 2012. Per the Travis County Criminal Court … Read More
The same HHSC judge that overturned a favorable SOAH (State Office of Administrative Hearings) decision in the payment hold case of Antoine Dental of Houston, has denied a motion to have a Medicaid overpayment hearing held at SOAH. HHSC Administrative … Read More
The Travis County Clerk’s Office has recently put its court records online. In the public interest, we are publishing here the record of Jack Stick’s DWI case. The following are the meanings of the prefixes used in the entries. Event … Read More
For the record, the next DWI hearing for Jack Stick is set for April 7th.
According to a government source, Jack Stick has been elevated from his position at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission as Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement to that of interim Chief Legal Counsel, replacing the retiring Steve Aragorn. A further … Read More
An online docket search of the Travis County Criminal Courts shows that the pre-trial conference hearing for Jack Stick, Deputy Inspector General of Texas HHSC-OIG, on his charge of DWI has been scheduled for January 27th, 2014.
Because of a recent attempt to have YouTube remove a TDMR-produced video about the September 2012 DWI arrest of Jack Stick, a former Texas state Rep, municipal court judge and currently Texas HHSC-OIG’s Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement, TDMR committed … Read More
TDMR believes that personal attacks on individuals are unwarranted and attempts to steer a high road in dealing with Medicaid issues. But TDMR also believes that the conduct of public officials, especially those in the employ of the Texas government … Read More
Update: It’s Day Two in the civil trial of District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Throughout the trial’s first day, a host of witnesses testified for the prosecution, recounting the events leading to Lehmberg’s booking at the Travis County Jail and what … Read More
Before the Thanksgiving long weekend, TDMR received a copy of the August 2012 audit conducted by the HHSC Office of the Inspector General on the Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership. As far as we know this is the first time … Read More
After a 40-year career, Dr. Paul Dunn is now on the verge of bankruptcy because he helped Medicaid children. In 2012, HHSC-OIG placed Dunn’s practice in Levelland under a 100% “credible allegation of fraud” payment hold for his orthodontic Medicaid … Read More
There is very little commentary on the TDMR website in relation to the DWI arrest last September of Jack Stick, former State Rep and Bee Cave judge who is the Deputy Inspector General for Enforcement for HHSC-OIG. As his case … Read More
This morning the San Antonio Express published a feature article headlining the case of Harlingen Family Dentistry and Dr. Juan Villarreal and his fight against the Office of Inspector General and their “credible allegation of fraud” payment holds. Reporter Jeremy … Read More
