Lawmakers express unease about awarding of KanCare contracts

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Kansas State Capitol

Lawmakers voiced discomfort on Tuesday with how the state awarded new contracts for its new Medicaid program, including the destruction of notes compiled by teams that evaluated the bidders' responses to technical questions used to score the proposals.

Jane Brown, plan president for Aetna Better Health of Kansas, appeared before the Legislature's Medicaid oversight committee to register concerns about her company's inability to obtain documents to better understand why its contract was not renewed.

Brown told lawmakers that while each bidder was scored based on their response to the questions, the documents released by the state show an . . .

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