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At least 220,000 Tennessee kids faced loss of health insurance due to lacking paperwork
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At least 220,000 Tennessee kids faced loss of health insurance due to lacking paperwork

Brett Kelman & Mike Reicher  |   Tennessean    |    July 14, 2019
CHATTANOOGA – When the leukemia was finally gone, Tricia Sewell thought her family’s nightmare was over. It was October of last year. Sewell’s 5-year-old son, Abel, had just finished three years of chemotherapy, all of which had been covered by Tennessee’s state Medicaid program, known as TennCare. Chemo was successful, but now Abel needed monthly blood tests to check if the cancer ever came back.

At least 220,000 Tennessee kids faced loss of health insurance due to lacking paperwork

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Medicare Call Center Woes Persist With Maximus Taking Charge
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Medicare Call Center Woes Persist With Maximus Taking Charge

Madison Alder    |    Bloomberg Law    |    March 11, 2019
A General Dynamics selloff hasn’t improved working conditions at Medicare call centers, workers allege, as House appropriators give the 10-year contract closer scrutiny. Under new manager Maximus Inc., workers at a Virginia call center aren’t receiving adequate wages, in violation of the federal service contract law, the Communications Workers of America allege in a complaint filed Jan. 31 with the Labor Department.

Medicare Call Center Woes Persist With Maximus Taking Charge

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How One Company is Making Millions off Trump’s War on the Poor
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How One Company is Making Millions off Trump’s War on the Poor

Tracie McMillan    |   Mother Jones    |    Jan./Feb. Issue, 2019
One night last March, Sue Fredericks ran into trouble. She had been watching snow accumulate for hours from her post at a 24-hour gas station. Busy stretches on her overnight shift were rare, on account of the size of the town in which she worked; with a few thousand residents an hour from Indianapolis, it is small and quaint, surrounded by corn and soy fields and featuring a shuttered Walmart.

How One Company is Making Millions off Trump’s War on the Poor

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Editorial: Maximus money move was wrong call
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Editorial: Maximus money move was wrong call

Editorial Advisory Board  |  The Topeka Capital Journal    |    Aug. 27, 2018
Nothing but problems. That’s been the theme of the state’s transition to a privatized Medicaid program that closed regional offices and failed to deliver on promises of efficiency and cost savings. KDHE contracted with Maximus, a for-profit company with annual revenues in access of $2.4 billion, that specializes in privatizing government programs such as Medicaid.

Editorial: Maximus money move was wrong call

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Kansas tells Medicaid contractor: Shape up, or face millions in fines
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Kansas tells Medicaid contractor: Shape up, or face millions in fines

Jonathan Shorman    |   The Wichita Eagle    |    Feb. 16, 2018
The company processing Kansas Medicaid applications is so out of compliance with its contract that it could face fines of more than $250,000 a day. Maximus is operating with 40 percent accuracy on financial payments; 98 percent is required. The company is also falling behind on handling applications and cases, the state of Kansas says.

Kansas tells Medicaid contractor: Shape up, or face millions in fines

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Medicaid application delays are forcing Kansas nursing homes to turn people away
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Medicaid application delays are forcing Kansas nursing homes to turn people away

Andy Marso    |    Kansas City Star    |    Dec. 15, 2017
Administrators at Villa St. Francis nursing home in Olathe have a checklist of questions before taking in a new resident with a pending Medicaid application. How many Medicaid-pending residents are we already subsidizing? Is this person likely to survive the months it will probably take for the state of Kansas to approve their application? If not, is there a loved one who is willing to follow through on the application after this person dies?

Medicaid application delays are forcing Kansas nursing homes to turn people away