Records show controversial contract cost state more, produced less – Houston Chronicle

AUSTIN – A sophisticated software program crunched through a sea of Texas hospital records in July 2013, instantaneously comparing payment records against Medicaid rules to identify $4.4 million in questionable spending and start a process that eventually returned the money to taxpayers.The anti-fraud system was not the now-infamous one made by local technology company 21CT, however. Instead, it was part of another, longtime Health and Human Services Commission initiative that has received little public attention but brings its own troubling questions to a state contracting scandal filled with them.

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