Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said that Bryan Hum, interim director of her administration’s Office of Policy and Legislative Affairs, had worked on the contracts but wasn't involved in negotiations.
A week after the D.C. Council awarded multibillion-dollar contracts for insuring D.C.’s Medicaid patients to three insurers, seeming to finally end a years-long struggle to right the city’s Medicaid system after court and council fights, Mayor Muriel E.
Tony Felts, a spokesman for Amerigroup, said Hum applied for the job in response to a public job posting in August — after D.C.’s Office of Contracting and Procurement had already made its decision on awarding the Medicaid contracts, though the contracts had not yet come before the council for approval.
for taking a job at Howard University after negotiating a tax break for the school in his city position.Bowser said Hum did not recuse himself from any work related to the Medicaid contracts before announcing his new position.
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