
    
      OPINION ISSUED JUNE 2, 1998
    
    LABORATORY CORPORATION OF AMERICA HOLDINGS VS. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES
    (CC-98-113)
    Claimant represents self.
    Joy M. Cavallo, Assistant Attorney General, for respondent.
   PER CURIAM:

This claim was submitted for decision based upon the allegations in the Notice of Claim and the respondent's Answer.

Claimant seeks payment of $129,900.00 for laboratory testing in paternity cases for the respondent from 1988 through approximately August 1997. The documentation for these services was not properly processed for payment by the respondent in the appropriate fiscal years; therefore, the claimant has not been paid. In its Answer, the respondent admits the validity of the claim, and states that there were sufficient funds expired in the appropriate fiscal year with which the claim could have been paid.

In view of the foregoing, the Court makes an award in the amount of $129,900.00.

Award of $129,900.00.  