An incendiary lawsuit over the business practices of one of the companies running KanCare, the Brownback administration’s privatization of Kansas’ $3 billion Medicaid program, just got more explosive.
The company, Sunflower State Health Plan, responded this week to a lawsuit accusing it of unethical behavior, saying the plaintiff, “an executive who was fired,” was trying to extort it.
In a counterclaim filed in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., Sunflower and its parent company, Centene Corp., alleges the former executive demanded $3 million from the company in return for not reporting it to the Kansas attorney general’s Medicaid fraud unit.
Calling her allegations “spurious,” Sunflower said it “refused to be extorted” and instead provided copies of her allegations and demand to the director of Kansas Medicaid Services, the director of the Kansas Division of Health Care Finance, the Kansas attorney general’s and U.S. attorney’s offices, and the FBI.
via KanCare company counters lawsuit accusing it of unethical behavior | The Kansas City Star.