Texas Advocates Urge FTC Probe into Deloitte’s Medicaid Software Errors
Austin, Texas – A coalition of privacy, technology, and health care advocates filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission urging an investigation into Deloitte Consulting LLP. They claim that hundreds of thousands of Texans were wrongly denied Medicaid coverage due to errors in the consulting firm’s eligibility software. Deloitte provides software that determines an applicant’s Medicaid eligibility in 20 states, including Texas. The National Health Law Program, one of three groups behind the complaint, …