California junks $179 Medicaid IT modernization project with Xerox

Healthcare IT News: Combine years of delay, ever-changing rules and requirements, state and federal red tape and a once-mighty company now in deep financial trouble. What do you get?

In California’s case, a $179 million computer modernization project that has to be junked.

The project, which went to bid in 2007 and still is far from completion, was to process claims for Medi-Cal, the state’s health-payment program for low-income residents.

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