After a months-long saga, the state Department of Health and Human Resources agreed this week to pay up to $248 million over the next decade for a complex Medicaid computer system. The contract goes to the lowest bidder, California-based Molina Medicaid Solutions, which handles the existing system for the state. The deal, signed earlier this week, apparently ends a DHHR bidding process that created unflattering headlines for much of the year. (Losing bidders have a few days to challenge the bid, but it was unclear Thursday if any would choose to do so.) The contract had already been rebid twice. DHHR has never given a public reason for the first failure. The second bid was scrapped in March after it became tainted by a conflict of interest.
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