State Sen. James Skoufis shared proposed draft language that would have provided Public Partnerships LLC with a no-bid contract to take over a popular home care program in the state during a testy hearing on the transition Thursday. But leaders from both the state Department of Health and PPL denied any knowledge of the initial proposal to hand the out-of-state company a $9 billion contract without a competitive bidding process.

Questions to state Health Commissioner James McDonald and PPL Vice President of Government Relations Patty Byrnes over the draft proposal were just one example of the heated exchanges that took place during the hearing to examine the troubled transition of the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. After over four hours of grilling the pair, many legislato

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