Gov. Robert Bentley said he is considering calling a special session of the legislature, weighing whether he can make enough cuts to support the Alabama Medicaid Agency's budget, which he said needs another $85 million.

"I have not made a decision on that yet. I met yesterday with my commissioner for Medicaid. You know, there's some real problems there," the governor said during a brief media availability in Birmingham on Wednesday, where he addressed BioAlabama's annual meeting. Bentley spoke about the biotech industry's investments in the state in his address.

Bentley said he would have a decision on whether to call a special session "in the next couple of months."

"Calling the special session is always an option," the governor said, adding that the state could also look at using funds from the BP oil spill.

Bentley also said he is confident that his ambitious prison construction plan, which died on the last day of the legislative session, would pass if he called a special session.

"We were very close on that. I think if we had another hour" there would've been a compromise, he said.

"I did not have the time to explain to the House members what I was trying to do," Bentley said.

Bentley, who is facing allegations that he had an affair with his former senior political adviser, Rebekah Caldwell Mason, and that he misused his office, also said he wasn't concerned about possible impeachment proceedings against him.

"I have no apprehensions because I've done nothing wrong," he said.

The governor declined to speak about the suspension of controversial Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who is facing ethics charges before the Alabama Judicial Inquiry Commission. "That's in a process right now," he said.

Bentley also didn't share his thoughts on the upcoming trial of House Speaker Mike Hubbard. The governor is among a list of possible witnesses who could be called to testify in the case.