A Shawnee County judge has rejected Aetna for Better Health's challenge of how the state awarded the contracts to manage its $4 billion Medicaid program.
District Judge Thomas Luedke said he couldn't find the state's decision to deny Aetna a contract to administer KanCare was unreasonable or unlawful.
Luedke set aside Aetna's complaints that the procurement process was based on unstated evaluation criteria as well as selecting "arbitrary and irrational" tiebreaking criteria in technical scoring.
He also dismissed arguments about scoring records being destroyed and that the process was marked by a conflict of interest with . . .
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