Computer firm inks welfare agency pact.Computer firm inks welfare agency pact Computer Sciences Corp. in El Segundo El Segundo (ĕl sēgŭn`dō), industrial city (1990 pop. 15,223), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1917. Its products include navigation and computer systems, aircraft parts, office machines, telephone apparatus, and said June 11 it has signed a $149 million contract with the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Department of Social Services social services Noun, pl welfare services provided by local authorities or a state agency for people with particular social needs social services npl → servicios mpl sociales to act as fiscal agent for the state's Medicaid Medicaid, national health insurance program in the United States for low-income persons; established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. program. The contract continues work the company has performed since 1986 for New York's Medicaid program, the largest in the nation and the source of health-care services to more than 2 million low-income people. The $1.74-billion-in-sales company, using a staff of 400, already processes more than $10 billion annually in Medicaid claims from physicians, hospitals, clinics and other health-care providers. |
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