Florida considers hiring same firm behind state unemployment website to build Medicaid system

A battle about whether Deloitte Consulting LLP should receive a major state Medicaid contract is ready to start playing out before an administrative law judge.

The technology contract, which could be worth $135 million, has drawn scrutiny because the state Agency for Health Care Administration decided to award it to Deloitte this summer amid an uproar —- and litigation —- about problems with an online unemployment-compensation system that the company helped develop