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==EXPOSED: America’s “Highest Highest Paid Government Workers”Workers==[[Image:Maximus CEO Richard MontoniReport-Cover-Caseworker350pxExposed_Americas_Highest_Paid_Govt_Workers500pxW.jpg‎jpg|left350px|350pxcenter]]===Maximus CEO Richard Montoni==='''[[MAXIMUS, IncLavish salaries.]]''' , based in Reston, Virginia, is a publicly-traded (NYSE:MMS), for-profit corporation that receives government contracts to provide "business process services" to government Platinum health care and human services agencies in retirement plans. Job security despite massive screw ups. These are the United States hallmarks of America’s highest paid “government workers” – and abroadthey cost taxpayers millions of dollars. The company focuses primarily on operating governmentBut these well-sponsored programs paid workers aren’t the local teachers, social workers and corrections officers that Americans were told are responsible for vulnerable populationsstate and local budget woes. Rather, such as Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicaid, Medicare, welfare-they are the corporate executives who worked hard to privatize public services and who use taxpayer dollars to-work, enrich themselves with outlandish salaries and child support servicesbenefits.

The chief executive officer of Maximus is Richard Montoni. Montoni [http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensation.action?t=MMS received $16,194,847] in total compensation from 2008 to 2012, according to Morningstar, making him “America's Highest Paid Caseworker.” Maximus' top executives are making a fortune off of vulnerable populations as well; they received cumulative [http://insiders.morningstar.com/trading/executive-compensation.action?t=MMS compensation of $41,808,585] over Read the same period. “The outsourcing of health and human services operations to private for-profit firms raises significant concerns for sick or at-risk populations who depend on them, as well as for taxpayers who all too often foot the bill for substandard service,” said Lisa Graves Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy. In 2004, the state of Wisconsin entered into a contract with Maximus to ensure the state received as much federal funding as possible for a mental health program serving young people, and paid Maximus a contingency fee for all the Medicaid money it garnered for the state. In September 2013, a federal audit charged that the state, acting on Maximus’ advice, engaged in improper billing and as a result the state may have to return some or all of the [http://www.jsonline.com/news/health/consultants-advice-could-cost-state-tens-of-millions-b99129639z1-229986111.html funding it received]. Wisconsin improperly claimed $19 for every $20 reported and now taxpayers may be on the hook for tens of millions. That was not the first time Maximus landed in hot water for improper billing. In July 2007, Maximus, Inc. agreed to pay $30.5 million to settle a criminal investigation regarding [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/23/AR2007072301727.html falsified Medicaid claims]. The federal government alleged that Maximus colluded with the District of Columbia’s Child and Family Services Agency to help it falsify claims to Medicaid for services provided to children in DC’s foster care program. CMD will continue to profile some of the other CEOs who are living large off the taxpayer dime this month. The effort is part of our ongoing project, [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Portal:Outsourcing_America_Exposed OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org] , which focuses on the 12 firms doing the most to privatize public services. Learn more about Maximus at our [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maximus SourceWatch profile]. Follow the conversation at #OutsourcingAmericareport here.