Rebecca Grapevine - Georgia Health News

Lisa Rager knows well the hurdles to obtaining services for foster kids. She and her husband, Wes, have cared for more than 100 foster children and adopted 11 of them, many of whom are pictured. Rager says one child waited more than a year for an appointment to see a specialist doctor.

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

Centene Plaza in St. Louis on Oct. 29, 2022. Since 2015, Centene has given more than $26 million to state political campaigns, including in places where it is wooing Medicaid contracts and settling accusations of overbilling taxpayers

Centene showers politicians with millions as it courts contracts and settles overbilling claims

The nation's largest Medicaid managed-care company has thrown more than $26.9 million at political campaigns since 2015, especially focused on states where it is wooing contracts and settling accusations that it overbilled taxpayers.

State Medicaid programs sign lucrative deals with transportation companies that are supposed to provide reliable free rides to and from medical care. But some shuttle drivers never show, or some patients have been injured during rides because their wheelchairs were not properly secured, according to lawsuits.

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Medicaid pays millions for patient transportation. Sometimes the ride never comes

Rebecca Grapevine - Georgia Health News

Medicaid's transportation contracts can be worth tens of millions for companies that land them. But patients say rides to and from medical care often show up late — or sometimes not at all.