For the second time in a week, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission is getting flack for mishandling state contracts — and this time the Department of State Health Services is also involved.
The State Auditor’s Office released a 30-page report on Monday showing both agencies bungled a contract for how Genesis Systems Inc. would work the state’s birth and death records system.
The report comes a week after three Texas Health and Human Services Commission employees were fired following a scathing letter from Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to Executive Commissioner Charles Smith over contracting failures related to the Children’s Health Insurance Program in rural communities. Abbott said he had asked the State Auditor’s Office and the health commission’s inspector…
