Civil Plaintiff
Kansas Receives $27.6 Million from Centene for Medicaid Misconduct
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Centene kept Kansas in the dark about drug discounts and used other strategies to squeeze more profit out of the state’s Medicaid program.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has reached a settlement with one of the nation’s wealthiest companies for about $27.6 million over alleged misconduct involving the state Medicaid program and prescription drugs.
Centene Corp. helps run the state’s privatized Medicaid program. Schmidt says secretive practices at the company cost Kansas and its taxpayers many millions of dollars.
Schmidt says the $27.6 million settlement is more than twice the amount of damages that his office was able to prove.
