State Sens. Tim Lang (back left) and Cindy Rosenwald (back right) question Olivia May, New Hampshire’s director of Medicaid enterprise management, and Robert Berry, general counsel for the Division of Medicaid, during a legislative hearing Tuesday. (Photo by William Skipworth/New Hampshire Bulletin)
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