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Senate committee advises and consents to Cindy Bradshaw as Medicaid executive director
Summary
The State Senate committee advised and consented to Cindy Bradshaw's appointment as executive director of the Division of Medicaid. Senators questioned her about fraud oversight, limits imposed by CMS on eligibility checks, and risks to the state's federal Medicaid match.
The State Senate committee voted to advise and consent to Cindy Bradshaw's appointment as executive director of the Division of Medicaid; the appointment "is effective 10/10/2024," the chair told the committee.
Bradshaw, who told the committee she worked about 15 years in the private insurance sector at Blue Cross and Blue Shield and UnitedHealthcare before joining the Department of Finance and Administration in 2012, described her recent roles in state government: managing the state and school employees health insurance plan and workers' compensation programs, then handling Medicaid eligibility and the unwinding process beginning in April 2023. She said the governor later asked her to step in as executive director.
The committee pressed Bradshaw on program oversight and federal funding. Senator McMahon said he was "concerned…
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