AUGUSTA ( AP) — A legislative panel on Tuesday authorized an investigation surrounding a computer error that caused the state’s Medicaid program, known as MaineCare, to continue covering thousands of people after they lost eligibility.
The bipartisan Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously to authorize a fast-paced investigation by the Office of Program Evaluation and Government Accountability that will focus on communications by state officials about the breakdown leading to the erroneous benefits, but not on the computer problems themselves.
“I think we did the right thing. We just had to go about this in a completely nonpartisan way,” Sen. Roger Katz, cochairman of the oversight panel, said after its vote.
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