December 12, 2014      1:44 PM
Under fire, Jack Stick resigns from the Health and Human Services Commission
Resignation comes after Statesman investigation of state contracts
Multiple
news outlets are reporting this Friday afternoon that Jack Stick has resigned as Chief Counsel for the HHSC. From the
Austin
American-Statesman:
“The
top lawyer for the state’s sprawling health agency has resigned amid questions
raised by an American-Statesman investigation into his relationship with an
Austin technology company to which he was steering $110 million in no-bid
contracts. Jack Stick, chief counsel for the Health and Human Services
Commission, tendered his resignation to Kyle
Janek, executive commissioner of the agency, said
agency spokeswoman Stephanie Goodman.
Janek has canceled the state’s contract with 21CT,
the data analytics firm to which Stick had directed business along with other
officials, Goodman said. The state contracted 21CT to overhaul its efforts to
use complicated and messy Medicaid data to root out Medicaid fraud, waste and
abuse.”
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