Mayhew: DHHS computer error cost $10.7M

The Department of Health and Human Services has put a dollar amount to a computer billing error that allowed thousands of ineligible people to receive MaineCare benefits. Commissioner Mary Mayhew said the state paid medical providers $10.7 million in ineligible benefits, and that it must pay back $3.8 million of that to the federal government for its share of reimbursements.
Mayhew first alerted legislators to the error in March, and previous est ...