As detailed by the New Hampshire Union Leader, Maggie Hassan has come under fire for new “pay-to-play” allegations. Hassan reportedly received significant campaign contributions to her gubernatorial campaigns from a company that manages the state’s Medicaid program. In short:

“One of the companies that manages the state’s Medicaid program was a big contributor to Democrat Maggie Hassan’s campaigns when she was running for governor, but has given next to nothing now that she is running for the U.S. Senate where, if elected, she will not be in a position to promote multi-million-dollar state contracts.”

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The Missouri-based health-care management company, party to some of the most lucrative contracts in state history, has been a major donor to Hassan’s gubernatorial campaigns both directly and through the Democratic Governors Association since 2012.

Now operating on the online Obamacare exchange as New Hampshire Healthy Families, Centene or its officers contributed nearly $50,000 to Hassan’s campaign committee over two election cycles, according to campaign finance reports filed with the Secretary of State.

The donations started in October 2012, when candidate Hassan argued for expanding Medicaid in New Hampshire under Obamacare during her campaign for governor, and continued in the ensuing years as her administration presided over the expansion and conversion of Medicaid to a HMO-style “managed care” program under Centene and WellSense.

The largest donation came in early December 2013, when Centene began coordinating services for many of New Hampshire’s 135,000 traditional Medicaid recipients. Between Dec. 3-4, Centene executives and the Centene corporation contributed a combined $34,000 to Friends of Maggie Hassan for her 2014 campaign.

A $292 million sole-source contract with Centene and WellSense to manage the expanded Medicaid program for the first year was brought before the Executive Council as a late item in July 2014, and passed on a party line 3-2 vote, at Hassan’s urging.

The contributions from Centene to the Hassan campaign continued into 2015, including a $5,000 donations to Hassan’s inaugural committee in January.

In August 2015, Centene and WellSense were awarded a $1.6 billion Medicaid contract extension, the largest single deal in state history, to run the state’s Medicaid program.

When Hassan announced her run for Senate in October of that year, Centene donations to her campaign stopped. According to Federal Election Commission reports, one Centene vice president, Wade Rakes, has made two $35 donations to Hassan’s Senate campaign against incumbent Republican Kelly Ayotte.

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