BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland’s Attorney General announced on Thursday that the state is suing United Healthcare, accusing the company and a subsidiary of providing a defective computer system to Maryland’s Medicaid program.
Attorney General Anthony Brown, in the suit, said that the insurance company and its subsidiary, Optum, had provided the system to Maryland Medicaid’s behavioral health program, but alleged it crashed on the first day it was used.
The computer system, the Attorney General’s Office said, “never functioned properly, costing state taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.”…