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- 摘要
- 纽约被指控预先选定公司运营价值100亿美元的项目
- 中标方被指控挪用资金、损害纳税人利益
- 纽约官员否认不当行为，称诉讼背后存在政治动机
纽约，6月16日（路透社）——特朗普政府周二起诉纽约州高级卫生官员，指控他们涉嫌操纵该州估值100亿美元的医疗补助家庭护理项目的招标流程，此举损害了患者、护理人员以及纳税人的利益。
美国司法部表示，此次诉讼旨在制止一起涉嫌存在欺诈的计划。总部位于佐治亚州阿尔法利塔的Public Partnerships LLC（PPL）在被“预先选定”接管纽约州消费者导向个人协助项目（CDPAP）后，获取了数百万美元的不当利润。
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州卫生专员詹姆斯·麦克唐纳今年2月表示，该项目有超过20万名患者和26万多名个人护理助理参与。
司法部民事部门助理总检察长布雷特·舒马特在一份声明中表示：“纽约州未能监管一家受青睐的供应商，该供应商非法挪用了数百万美元的医疗补助资金，这一行为极其恶劣，背叛了公众信任。”
纽约指控特朗普政府存在政治动机
被告包括PPL、麦克唐纳以及州医疗补助主管阿米尔·巴西里。此次诉讼旨在阻止PPL“从联邦金库挪用资金”，为该公司指定一名接管人，并制止进一步的涉嫌欺诈行为。
PPL未立即置评。
纽约州民主党州长凯西·霍楚尔的发言人表示：“这不过是特朗普政府在选举年又一次可悲的企图，他们利用司法系统攻击政治对手。纽约州转向单一财务中介机构的决定已经为纳税人节省了超过10亿美元，同时遏制了欺诈、浪费和滥用行为。”
霍楚尔并非被告，也未被指控存在不当行为。纽约州卫生部门也驳斥了诉讼中的指控，称招标过程公平且具有竞争性。
“来自州长办公室的压力”
纽约州议会2024年决定，将CDPAP的管理工作从此前的600多家机构移交至单一实体负责。
司法部指控巴西里在“亲自评分”PPL成功中标10亿美元管理合同后，参与了排挤其他合格竞标者的行动。
根据起诉书，巴西里参与了与其他州的最后一刻邮件往来，卫生部门官员在邮件中表示，他们“受到了来自州长办公室的某种‘压力’”，以确认其他竞标者是否符合资格。
司法部称，纽约州任由PPL从CDPAP获取数百万美元的超额收入，以高于预期的时长大幅计费，抵消了整合该项目管理本应带来的成本节约。
州官员表示，这些改革使CDPAP“更具问责性”，减少了浪费，并确保患者能够获得所需的护理服务。
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US sues New York health officials over alleged fraud in Medicaid homecare program
2026-06-16T22:15:56.334Z / Reuters
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- Summary
- New York accused of preselecting company to run $10 billion program
- Winning bidder accused of siphoning money, hurting taxpayers
- New York officials deny wrongdoing, allege political motive behind lawsuit
NEW YORK, June 16 (Reuters) – The Trump administration sued top New York health officials on Tuesday over an alleged scheme to rig the bidding process for managing the state’s estimated $10 billion Medicaid homecare program, harming patients and caregivers as well as taxpayers.
The U.S. Department of Justice said the lawsuit aims to stop an alleged fraudulent scheme in which Public Partnerships LLC, based in Alpharetta, Georgia, generated millions of dollars of improper profits after being “pre-selected” to take over New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program, or CDPAP.
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More than 200,000 patients and more than 260,000 personal assistants participate in the program, state health commissioner James McDonald said in February.
“New York’s failure to police a favored vendor that unlawfully siphoned millions of dollars of Medicaid funding is egregious and betrays the public trust,” Brett Shumate, an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s civil division, said in a statement.
NEW YORK ALLEGES POLITICAL MOTIVE BY TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
The defendants include PPL, McDonald and state Medicaid Director Amir Bassiri. The lawsuit seeks to stop PPL’s alleged “siphoning of funds from the federal coffers,” appoint a receiver for the company and halt further alleged fraud.
PPL had no immediate comment.
A spokesperson for New York’s Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul said: “This is just another sad attempt by the Trump administration to weaponize the justice system to attack political opponents in an election year. New York’s decision to move to a single fiscal intermediary has already saved taxpayers more than $1 billion while deterring fraud, waste and abuse.”
Hochul is not a defendant and was not accused of wrongdoing. The Health Department also rejected the lawsuit’s accusations and called the bidding process fair and competitive.
‘PRESSURE’ FROM GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
New York’s legislature decided in 2024 to move management of CDPAP to a single entity from more than 600 previously.
The Justice Department accused Bassiri of being part of an effort to disqualify other qualified bidders after he had “personally scored” PPL’s successful bid for the $1 billion management contract.
According to the complaint, Bassiri was part of last-minute email exchanges with other states, in which Health Department officials said they were “under some sort of ‘pressure from our Governor’s Office’” to see if other bidders were qualified.
The Justice Department said New York has let PPL raid CDPAP of millions of dollars in excess revenue, billing at higher-than-expected hourly rates, erasing the cost savings that consolidating the program’s management was supposed to generate.
State officials said the changes have resulted in a “more accountable” CDPAP, reduced waste and helped ensure that patients obtain the care they need.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Jamie Freed
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