Improved oversight of a $1.5 billion contract involving Medicaid and North Carolina’s Health Department is one of two significant findings in a performance audit released Thursday.
The other involves patient safety vulnerabilities, according to the analysis by the office of first-term Republican Auditor Dave Boliek.
The Department of Health and Human Services has a pact with General Dynamics Information Technology. The company provides enrollment functions for the more than 3 million people in the state enrolled.
The report says the Health Department “should improve monitoring of the $1.5 billion GDIT contract so that the state’s interest is protected and to ensure the effective and efficient use of taxpayer funds.”
The audit found providers remaining in the program despite issues with license limitations, suspensions or other credentialing. The report was done in part to see if similar issues found in 2021 by the auditor’s office of Democrat Beth Wood were fixed. Mandy Cohen was leading DHHS in 2021 prior to leaving for an appointment in the Biden administration to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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