Governor-elect Beverly Perdue on Tuesday named Lanier Cansler, a lobbyist and former legislator, as secretary of the beleaguered state Department of Health and Human Services.
Cansler, who served as DHHS deputy secretary from 2001 to 2005, has been a partner in the Cansler Fuquay Solutions lobbying and consulting firm for the past four years. The firm represented Computer Sciences Corp., which recently won a $265 million contract to handle North Carolina's Medicaid billing system.
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