RALEIGH, N.C.
(AP) - A state audit says 12 employees working on North Carolina's troubled
computer system for processing Medicaid claims were paid $580,758 in overtime
without proper approvals of documentation.
The audit
released Thursday says the North Carolina Department of Health and Human
Services employees who received the payments were ineligible for overtime, but
the money was paid through a policy exception.
The audit says
$237,000 was paid to the director of the state's Medicaid Management
Information System as part of an effort to implement software changes that were
supposed to save the state millions. Instead, the project is at least two years
behind schedule and has cost more than twice the original price tag of $265
million.
"I would like to thank Auditor Wood and her staff for
their work on the audit," Dr. Aldona Wos, the Secretary of Health and Human
Services said in an email statement. "We
take these findings very seriously and have already taken steps to ensure
improved accountability within the department."
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