How Kathy Hochul’s admin handed firm a $1B Medicaid contract without competitive bidding
Governor Kathy Hochul's administration awarded a $1 billion Medicaid contract without competitive bidding. The project, originally intended to centralize county application processes, has become one of the state's most expensive active contracts.
What began as a $177 million project to centralize the fraction of Medicaid application processes still handled by counties into a single statewide portal in 2023 exploded into one of the Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration’s top 100 most expensive active contracts in August.
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