AUGUSTA — Lawmakers on the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on Tuesday reviewed a $925,000 contract awarded to a Rhode Island-based consulting firm to study the state’s welfare system. The no-bid contract, awarded to the Alexander Group by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, has come under fire by Democratic leaders in […]
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Lawmakers to review Maine Medicaid study contract
AUGUSTA — The Auditor General for the State of Pennsylvania said Monday that he has his doubts about how well the Maine Department of Health and Human Services vetted a company that it awarded a nearly $1 million no-bid contract to in September. Meanwhile, two committees of the Maine Legislature are expected to discuss the […]
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Woman charged with welfare fraud
LEWISTON — A Shawmut Street woman was indicted on a slew of charges Wednesday, accused of scheming to defraud the government out of welfare benefits over nine years. Amina H. Ege, 41, of 105 Shawmut St., was indicted on two counts of theft by deception, four counts of aggravated forgery and 12 counts of unsworn […]
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DHHS commissioner makes case against expansion
PORTLAND — The head of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services reiterated Gov. Paul LePage’s stance against Medicaid expansion in the state, telling Portland business leaders Wednesday morning that the move would ultimately cannibalize other parts of the state budget. Mary Mayhew, commissioner of DHHS, spoke to the Portland Community Chamber at one […]
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Portland lawmakers, advocates oppose DHHS office move
PORTLAND — More than a dozen state legislators, city officials and community leaders gathered Tuesday morning and called on Gov. Paul LePage to change the state’s decision to move two social service offices from Bayside to South Portland. In October, the state awarded a contract to consolidate the office of the Department of Health and […]
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LePage donor wins bid for new DHHS offices
AUGUSTA — A donor to Republican Gov. Paul LePage has been chosen by the state to develop and lease new state health department offices. Eric Cianchette’s company, ELC Management, was chosen among four bidders to build new Department of Health and Human Services offices in South Portland after the current offices’ lease in Portland expires next […]
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Portland landlord, mayor condemn decision to consolidate state offices in South Portland
PORTLAND — The owner of two Bayside buildings rejected for new state offices on Monday called the bidding process “a waste of time.” As a result of the state’s decision last month, Tom Toye stands to lose the Maine Department of Labor and Department of Health and Human Services as tenants at 185 and 200 […]
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DHHS chief: MaineCare changes underway
AUBURN — If MaineCare is expanded to add another 70,000 clients to the rolls, “it will break an already fragile system,” Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew said Wednesday. Such an expansion also would continue to drain resources needed for other necessary social services and state programs, including building roads and funding […]
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Lawmakers challenge LePage on contract for Medicaid critic
AUGUSTA — Key state lawmakers, including a Lewiston senator, are questioning a nearly $1 million contract to hire a consultant to study an expansion of Medicaid in Maine. Lawmakers also are questioning the consulting firm’s objectivity and why Department of Health and Human Services officials in Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration awarded the no-bid contract under […]
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Maine health officials to study Medicaid expansion
AUGUSTA — The state has agreed to pay $1 million to an outside consultant to evaluate Maine’s Medicaid program and study whether it should be expanded under the federal health care overhaul, officials said Tuesday. Maine’s Department of Health and Human Services signed the contract with the Alexander Group, led by Gary Alexander, former welfare chief […]