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Little Rock, AR-based Arkansas Department of Human Services Resigned Richard Wyatt as Chief Information Officer
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The Department of Human Services (DHS) is Arkansas` largest state agency, with more than 7,400 employees and at least one local DHS office in each of the state`s 75 counties. The agency`s skilled and passionate staff cares for Arkansans of all ages working to ensure citizens are healthy, safe and enjoying a high quality of life.
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Richard Wyatt, the chief information officer at the state Department of Human Services, submitted his resignation Thursday, effective Oct. 30. Wyatt has been the point man at the department in explaining exploding costs, money spent on non-functioning systems and other problems in the computerized system for enrolling people in Medicaid and checking the eligibility of those receiving health insurance coverage under the private option expansion of Medicaid. Wyatt has been grilled by legislative committees over his agency`s work and a decision this week to attempt to subpoena testimony from federal officials was widely understood to be a probe aimed at checking events as described by Wyatt against the view of the federal agency that supervises Medicaid and Medicare payments to the states.
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