State Of Texas Awards Contract Extension To Scandal-Plagued ACS

[OhioChick]

Under a two-year extension to a deal originally signed in 2004, ACS will handle Medicaid claims processing, operations support, and primary care case management through August 2009.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek

Dec 4, 2006 01:00 PM

Texas' Medicaid program on Monday handed outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services a $230 million contract extension despite the fact that the company was forced to oust its CEO and CFO last week because of improprieties surrounding its stock option plan.

Under a two-year extension to a deal originally signed in 2004, ACS will handle Medicaid claims processing, operations support, and primary care case management for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission through August 2009. A spokesman for the commission said legal troubles at ACS, which is based in Texas, "were not a consideration" in the decision to award the contract extension. "They've done a good job for us in the past," said the spokesman.

Last week, ACS said CEO Mark King and CFO Warren Edwards improperly backdated the price of options grants during a period from 1994 to 2005. During that time, ACS said the executives deliberately chose days on which ACS's stock took a dip as the effective date for the options, making them more valuable when exercised. ACS said King and Edwards would resign their positions.

ACS said the SEC and the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York are continuing their investigations of the company's stock options practices. ACS said it estimates the backdating cost the company $51 million in unrecorded expenses.
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[Doctor_J]

1. I wonder how much ACS gives to the TX GOP

And to those Indianans, Governor Bitch Daniels is about to outsource YOUR Medicare admin. Here's a look into your future.

[texpatriot2004]

2. Texas = Corruption nm