DOJ: NYC Defrauded Feds Out Of Millions By Shunting Developmentally Delayed Kids Into Medicaid

The Daily Caller reports:

Federal officials filed a lawsuit Monday against the city of New York and a private contractor for a five-year long scheme that defrauded Medicaid’s computerized billing system of tens of millions of dollars.

The U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York charged New York’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and its contractor, Computer Sciences Corporation, with gaming the federal Medicaid system to trigger federal reimbursements to the city for tens of thousands of false claims for an early intervention program for infants and toddlers.

The great moments of the Welfare State. We hope someone does go to jail over this one.