An audit of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, the state agency that oversees Medicaid and CHIP, found sweeping issues within its contracting process, according to the San Antonio Express-News.
An audit of 28 contract awards worth $4.6 billion found the process riddled with errors, from scoring to documentation. Five of the contracts, worth $3.4 billion, had so many errors it was impossible to verify their accuracy, according to the report.
The commission currently has no permanent leader. Its former commissioner, Charles Smith, retired in May, shortly after the agency canceled five CHIP contracts in April due to contracting issues.
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