Nassau County Government Bruce Blakeman met with FBI Director (and former Nassau resident) Kash Patel on the Islanders recreation at UBS Enviornment in Elmont Sunday, the place they spoke about greater than Alex Ovechkin’s record-breaking efficiency.
Sources say Blakeman and Patel mentioned cooperation between the FBI and Nassau Police Division over allegations of Medicaid fraud involving New York state’s funding of Lengthy Island’s solely safety-net hospital.
Nassau College Medical Heart claims that New York corruptly disadvantaged it of greater than $1 billion in Medicaid funds over practically twenty years.
Blakeman and Patel’s assembly follows a letter from Rep. Eric Burlison to Patel and AG Pam Bondi final week accusing New York of “violating federal Medicaid regulation and deliberately breaching contracts with the federal authorities, particularly in relation to the Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) program.”
Nassau Well being Care Company (NHCC), the general public profit company that oversees the hospital, sued New York final 12 months and claims it’s now being retaliated in opposition to.
“That is corruption that’s each broad and deep inside our State’s authorities,” NHCC chairman Matthew Bruderman informed Burlison.
“This wasn’t a clerical oversight, a bookkeeping mistake or incompetence. What we’ve uncovered was nefarious, intentional and the State coated it up for years to starve this hospital and the individuals it serves of assets.”
It’s time to avoid wasting this nice hospital.
