Because of shameless leaders like LaTrina there is no question about embezzlement. The embezzlement is being done very openly by a CMS liaison. It is the only item that State Department of Health has been very transparent about it. The transparency has not been intentional but the result of the egoistic incompetent minds of Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Employees are directed to log their time to a special code which introduces the time as _SALARY CMS 2023. Most of employees' time either marginally or not related to CMS.
Several OSDH employees have taken the matter in hand and communicated through email with CMS leadership. Below is an example of one of those emails.
“Many employees have been directed to log their time to CMS. The Oklahoma State Department of Health has been paying its employees with unused CMS funds due to lack of contracting. Through embezzlement several personnel in leadership are granted up to 60% raises. Employees are afraid of retaliation therefore no one is reporting the fraud.”
Below is the list of The CMS leadership that the emails were sent to.
john.czajkowski@cms.hhs.gov
Jonathan.Blum@cms.hhs.gov
Erin.Richardson@cms.hhs.gov
Megan.Worstell@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-4520
Kathleen.Cantwell@cms.hhs.gov 202-690-8390
Kerrian.Reynolds@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-3200
Randy.Brauer@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-1618
James.Slade@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-1073
Derrick.Heard@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-2545
Douglas.Bergevin@cms.hhs.gov
James.Weber@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-1051
Elizabeth.Mack@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-1051
george.mills@cms.hhs.gov 410-786-7450
The responses to the complaints were the same “Your complaint has been forwarded to the Center for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Services (CMCS) at CMS to investigate this issue. CMCS may contact you directly regarding this matter. If you have further questions, please contact the following CMCS staff at:
Dorothy Ferguson at Dorothy.Ferguson@cms.hhs.gov
Celestine Curry at Celestine.Curry@cms.hhs.gov
Davida Kimble at Davida.Kimble@cms.hhs.gov
Virginia Brown at Virginia.Brown@cms.hhs.gov”
We ensured that all the CMS leadership and investigators who received the complaints receive this update. The Oklahoma City’s most popular, and influential digital media, The lost Ogle, is also receiving our updates.
If you are directed to log all or portion of your time to CMS and if to your opinion it is incorrect, please send a snapshot of your time to report this fraud to all the CMS leadership and investigators. Or feel free to leave a message for any CMS leadership staff until they realize the depth and urgency of the matter in the hope to speed the investigation process.
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