Cenk Uygur
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HHS Medicaid Work Requirements Could Enrich Secretary’s Old Company
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February 7, 2018
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"On Friday, four days after the swearing in of new Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, the agency signed off on Medicaid work requirements in a state where Azar’s old company is a subcontractor paid to help the state keep its Medicaid costs down.
The company, Health Management Systems (HMS), works with both the public and private sector to lower health costs, typically by shifting them to third parties such as insurance companies, and sometimes, patients themselves. Azar, the former head of Eli Lilly’s U.S. subsidiary, sat on the HMS board of directors from October 2016 through November 2017, when President Trump nominated him to run HHS.
In May 2017, Indiana asked the agency to let the state impose work requirements on its Medicaid beneficiaries. Azar traveled on Friday to Indiana and announced the approval for the waiver.
Indiana’s Medicaid website names HMS as a subcontractor that audits Medicaid payments. The contract took effect last summer and lasts through June 2021. It does not name HMS but says that the audit subcontractor will receive 13 percent of recovered funds as compensation.”*
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