Back in October 2015, TDMR filed an open records request with the Office of the Attorney General seeking to find out how much legal manpower had been used to pursue questionable Medicaid cases against Texas dentists involved in the multi-million dollar … Read More
Law360, Dallas (April 24, 2017, 7:13 PM EDT) — Texas told the Texas Supreme Court on Friday that a trial judge rightly barred Xerox Corp. from trying to share the blame in a $1 billion civil Medicaid fraud suit by … Read More
Several legal media outlets reported yesterday that former Texas Medicaid claims administrator Xerox has brought an appeal before the Texas Supreme Court because the company says the state is “wrongfully blocking the company from designating the dentists who treated patients in the alleged … Read More
Law360, Dallas (February 21, 2017, 6:33 PM EST) — Xerox Corp. accused Texas of using a “web of lawsuits” to divide and conquer in a $1 billion civil Medicaid fraud suit over allegedly unneeded orthodontics, telling the Texas Supreme Court … Read More
Last November, former Texas Medicaid director Billy Millwee, now a private consultant, appeared before the Little Hoover Commission in Sacramento, California. The LHC is an independent state oversight agency that was created in 1962 with the mission to investigate California … Read More
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has settled its complaints with Xerox over management of Medicaid claims, resetting its health-care contract with the business giant for an agreed-upon series of performance standards.The state’s claim against Xerox State Healthcare … Read More
The policy revision to the Medicaid orthodontic benefit process contemplated by representatives of the Texas Medicaid and Healthcare Partnership and the Health and Human Services Commission in 2009 was sweeping. Per the final draft of the confidential policy revision attached … Read More
The Health and Human Services Commission in February 2009 asked the individuals working on the new Medicaid orthodontic benefit policy to review whether or not a board certified orthodontist should review each and every prior authorization request for orthodontic treatment. … Read More
The TMHP document reported about in our last story that was recently appended to a court filing by Xerox shows that staff from the Health and Human Services Commission and its Office of Inspector General were well aware of the … Read More
Well, the answer to that question is about to be answered shortly. TDMR was contacted today by none other than Dr. Paul Dunn, the long-suffering dentist from Levelland who thought his troubles with Medicaid were over when he settled his … Read More
USA Today reported last week that 27 corporations listed in the Standard & Poor’s 500 paid no income tax for 2015 despite having pre-tax profits. The corporate giants include General Motors, Hewlett Packard, United Continental, News Corp, Weyerhauser amongst others. … Read More
Xerox is on a list of 27 large and profitable companies that paid no income tax last year. A report in the USA Today lists Xerox as one of several profitable companies that reported negative income tax expenses in 2015. … Read More
AUSTIN — House budget writers held a four-hour hearing Thursday on a long-running procurement mess at the state attorney general’s office. Guess who completely escaped mention? Gov. Greg Abbott, that’s who. That was curious because Abbott was attorney general for … Read More
A House leader said Thursday that he plans to investigate the state’s oversight of a major technology contractor after Attorney General Ken Paxton alerted lawmakers to cost overruns in a contract. Earlier this week, Paxton aides informed GOP state leaders’ offices … Read More
Back in May of 2014, the State of Texas terminated Xerox as the state’s Medicaid claims administrator and filed suit against the company. The state is seeking recompense for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars paid out by the company for … Read More
Yesterday, Travis County District Court Judge Amy Clark Meachum issued her decision in the case of Antoine Dental Centers of Houston, vindicating the practice in its payment hold case. The practice had been accused of “credible allegations of fraud” in … Read More
Texas owes the U.S. government $133 million for unallowable orthodontic Medicaid treatments from 2008 to 2010, according to a new report by the Office of Inspector General (OIG). Many of the claims were improperly approved because they did not have … Read More
Back last August, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General released an audit report that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission was responsible for the conduct of its Medicaid claims administrator for the hundreds of … Read More
From the Office of Inspector General of Department of Health and Human Services http://oig.hhs.gov [Matt Moore] I’m Matt Moore, an audit manager in Dallas, speaking with Eugena Newton, a senior auditor who is also in our Dallas office. Eugena, your … Read More
On May 29th, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued its request for proposal for the contract management of Texas Medicaid. So if you are so inclined, you can take the place of Xerox as the state’s Medicaid claims … Read More
The front-page of the Austin American Statesman Sunday morning carried the full story of the unprecedented ruling by the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) to award a Medicaid dentist back some $380,000 in legal fees from the Health and Human … Read More
Gov. Abbott’s Health and Human Services Commission Strike Force, besides reviewing the Medicaid fraud software contract with 21CT and Jack Stick, looked at the Health and Human Services Commission dealings with Xerox and its contract dealing with the company’s handling of Medicaid … Read More
These two organizations can’t seem but foul up in Texas. Both are again under the gun for their contract performance – Xerox with the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) and the Health and Human Services Commission for contract irregularities with … Read More
March 17, 2015 — Four clinics of Texas’ Smile Magic chain have agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle Medicaid fraud charges. The whistleblower lawsuit claimed the clinics used paid recruiters to target parents in grocery store parking lots and … Read More
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Rep. Tony Dale, R-Cedar Park, has filed House Bill 3108 relating to the collection of unpaid tolls. KXAN has learned the bill, filed on Wednesday, will hold both the Texas Department of Transportation and its vendor, Xerox, … Read More
(Bloomberg) — New York state is seeking to extend a contract with Computer Sciences Corp. to run its Medicaid computer system because a deal for Xerox Corp. to take over the program is stalled. The length of the extension is … Read More
Over the past decade, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission has bungled several major contracts that totaled nearly $2 billion, and despite public blowups and calls for reform, problems persist in part because of a lack of accountability in … Read More
AUSTIN – Texas health officials last year used the firing of the state’s contractor for processing Medicaid claims to justify giving a no-bid “emergency” deal for more money to a company whose lobbying team included several former appointees of then-Gov. … Read More
AUSTIN – Texas health officials last year used the firing of the state’s contractor for processing Medicaid claims to justify giving a no-bid “emergency” deal for more money to a company whose lobbying team included several former appointees of then-Gov. … Read More
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The company contracted to operate toll roads throughout the state has been fined nearly $177,000 in damages by the Texas Department of Transportation. Xerox’s $100 million contract with the State of Texas includes handling customer service and … Read More
While Texas is in drought, the bad news floodgates have opened even wider at HHSC with a further state report about inept and costly contract mismanagment. This time with AT&T. Ballooned from $1 million to $110 million Today, the Dallas Morning News jumped … Read More
Houston Chronicle business columnist Chris Tomlinson blasted the Texas Health and Human Services Commission Office of Inspector General for its treatment of Medicaid providers in his column Wednesday. His criticism however goes further than OIG and alleges that OIG’s overzealousness … Read More
The Houston Chronicle (story behind a paywall) reported this morning that Leah Rayne, HHSC’s business technology architect, was fired because she “admitted to officials that she leaked details about an internal strategy meeting to Truven Health Analytics…[the] company that was in final negotiations for … Read More
AUSTIN – Call it the billion-dollar blame game. Six years after auditors discovered signs that some Texas orthodontists were putting unneeded braces on teeth of the state’s poorest children, an army of lawyers are battling over who is liable for … Read More
he Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has filed a claim against the private company responsible for rolling out a Medicaid payment system that the state says is riddled with defects. In the claim filed Monday, the health department said … Read More
The following excerpt is from the Houston Chronicle about Xerox and the State coming to an agreement on the disputed files. AUSTIN – Lawyers for the Xerox Corp. agreed Thursday to temporarily turn over private health information about millions of … Read More
AUSTIN (KXAN) — You take the toll road to save time and you get a TxTag to save time paying your bill, but for many of you, dealing with TxTag has been anything but saving time. For two months, you’ve … Read More
August 29, 2014 — In the latest development in the ongoing Texas Medicaid scandal, the state Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has filed a second lawsuit against Xerox, claiming the company is refusing to turn over patient records. Without … Read More
Xerox, a company that worked on the Texas Medicaid program, may still have files that contain information about many current and former Medicaid clients. The company is being sued by the state and has refused to return the files. One … Read More
The state is suing Xerox for a second time, afraid the company’s recent actions in withholding a large number of documents relating to its tenure as the state’s primary Medicaid claims administrator will lead to millions of dollars of federal … Read More
