Alaska settles complaint over Medicaid payment system

The state has reached a settlement over its problem-plagued Medicaid payment system, agreeing to pay the vendor hired to implement the system $25.9 million it is owed, provided certain terms are met.
State health department spokeswoman Sarana Schell says the department received thousands of hours of work it won’t have to pay for and says the vendor, Xerox State Healthcare LLC, assigned new management to the project.
Xerox is to provide $1.5 million in hardware system upgrades, among other