JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Weeks after exchanging sharp words about each other, Mississippi Medicaid director Bob Robinson and state Attorney General Jim Hood are publicly criticizing each other again.

The two men appeared Thursday before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports that Robinson said Hood's office had collected a little more than $6,000 in fraud cases in six years. Robinson said the Medicaid office had collected more than $3 million.

Hood said the Division of Medicaid had referred only 26 cases to his office in six years and only one this year. He said private individuals had referred more than 100 and his office had collected $37 million for the state.

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Information from: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, http://nems360.com/

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