AUGUSTA — Maine Attorney General Janet Mills has ruled that a proposal by Gov. Paul LePage to bar immigrants and asylum seekers from receiving General Assistance is illegal and unconstitutional. The proposed new rule, which was unveiled late last year by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, was meant to align qualification for […]
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LePage administration releases Alexander Group’s welfare study after months-long delay
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a much-anticipated study by a controversial consultant, which presented analysis of and recommendations for the state’s welfare programs. The 228-page analysis was the result of months of work by the Rhode Island-based Alexander Group, which received a $925,000 no-bid contract for consulting […]
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State officials: Allow takeover of Farmington hospital group
The state’s largest hospital group is one step closer to taking over Franklin Community Health Network, including the only hospital in Franklin County. On Friday, state officials recommended that the Maine Department of Health and Human Services let MaineHealth acquire FCHN. The 62-page preliminary report said MaineHealth had shown it would be able to provide […]
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LePage administration releases Alexander Group’s welfare study after months-long delay
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a much-anticipated study by a controversial consultant, which presented analysis of and recommendations for the state’s welfare programs. The 228-page analysis was the result of months of work by the Rhode Island-based Alexander Group, which received a $925,000 no-bid contract for consulting […]
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Alexander Group releases welfare report recommending changes
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a much-anticipated study by a controversial consultant, which presented analysis of and recommendations for the state’s welfare programs. The 228-page analysis was the result of months of work by the Rhode Island-based Alexander Group, which received a $925,000 no-bid contract for consulting […]
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Top Maine DHHS official leaves agency to return to private sector
AUGUSTA — The chief operating officer for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services is leaving his post to return to the private sector, according a spokesman for the agency. According to DHHS spokesman John Martins, William Boeschenstein Jr. of Cape Elizabeth, who served with DHHS since March 2011, will be replaced by Sam […]
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State announces new contracts for troubled MaineCare ride program
AUGUSTA — The state will not renew a contract with a company hired to broker rides for MaineCare patients, according to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Coordinated Transportation Solutions, a Connecticut-based company that employs about 45 call-center workers in Lewiston, will lose its $28 million contract when it expires June 30. CTS can […]
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Feds fine Maine $7 million for not meeting work-to-welfare goals
AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage says Maine faces more than $7 million in federal fines because it’s not meeting work participation requirements for welfare recipients. LePage said Thursday that Maine needed an overall work participation rate of 47.5 percent and 87.5 percent for two-parent families in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in […]
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Senate passes bill to cancel welfare consultant’s contract
AUGUSTA — Maine’s Senate has approved a measure to cancel Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration’s contract with a consultant examining its Medicaid program. The Senate backed the bill with a 21-14 vote Wednesday. The bill eliminating the contract with the Alexander Group, led by the former welfare chief of Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, was endorsed […]
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Our View: LePage keeps ignoring issues at DHHS
Gov. Paul LePage needs to walk over to Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services and handle some personnel problems, and soon. While the governor was announcing a controversial new program Wednesday to allow more commercial tree cutting on public lands, Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, was talking about a mysterious $1 million payment buried deep […]