Attorney General Ken Paxton's role in a deal a jury found fraudulent is the latest in a string of episodes raising questions about Paxton’s stewardship of the agency. Paxton, who is seeking a third term, faces a May runoff election against George P. Bush.
Problems in the State of Texas’s Medicaid dental program first became public in 2011, when a Dallas television station reported some clinics were billing more for children’s orthodontic care than entire states. Although the practitioners were first to be blamed, court documents laterXerox had hired workers with little or no knowledge of dental procedures to process the applications for treatment as quickly as possible, with scant review.
Texas has re-paid the federal government $133 million, the amount the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services calculated it was due for the state allowing Xerox to approve unnecessary dental payments. Texas regulators, in turn, have tried with limited success to recover money from dentists they say abused the program.its business services division into Conduent. Launched in 2014, the state’s Medicaid fraud lawsuit against the company meandered through the court system for years.
Ray, the dentists’ attorney, said he tried to convince Paxton’s office to prosecute the case as a contract violation for years, a legal adjustment he said could have helped his clients settle their disputes. The agency refused, he said. Winter, the assistant attorney general, suggested that was his understanding, as well. Conduent “indicated to the state that if the state amended its pleadings, it would be helpful to [Conduent] in their efforts to recover on their insurance claims,” he wrote in response to lawyers’ questions about the deal.
a $236 million settlement less than a day after the new petition was filed, proving that it “did nothing except give Conduent the opportunity to hand it to insurers,” AIG attorney Michael Carlinsky said during the trial.Conduent’s lawyers argued the deal was an above-board settlement that benefited everyone. The company could keep its business in other states and Texas would recover hundreds of millions of dollars without having to prove a difficult case at trial.
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