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ACS adds Medicaid role

Advertiser Staff

ACS, the Dallas-based company that ran the state's controversial van-camera operation, yesterday said it has been awarded a $41 million, five-year contract to implement and manage operation and support of the state's Medicaid program.

A new claims-processing program is scheduled to be initiated this fall to coincide with the turnover of fiscal agent operations to ACS. ACS said it will hire local staff for the operation.

ACS serves as the Medicaid fiscal agent or facilities manager in 13 states and the District of Columbia.

Earlier this year the company, which provides technology support to businesses, signed a $28 million contract with The Queen's Medical Center to take over part of the information service there.

Biodiversity agreement OK'd

Diversa Corp. said yesterday that it has signed a biodiversity access and research collaboration agreement with the Marine Bioproducts Engineering Center at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa.

The agreement gives Diversa the right to discover genes from existing material collections and from environmental samples collected by the UH center's researchers, with the intent of commercializing resulting products.