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Ed De Martino was a maintenance worker turned health care aide at New Medico's Cortland, N.Y. facility. Ironically, two years after getting the job at New Medico, De Martino's son WayneJohn became severely brain injured after being hit by a drunk driver.
The De Martino family lived only a few blocks away from the former New Medico facility. As a staff member and parent, Ed De Martino said he witnessed fraudulent psychotherapy on brain injured patients, pressure on staff to keep patients for as long as possible and mass billings for non-existent or useless treatment.
"There was a psychiatrist who would come in and put all the brain injured patients in the gym and kick the ball around for a few minutes," he said. "He billed everybody's insurance all at once for group psychotherapy."
According to De Martino, in order to submit bills to Medicaid, New Medico would fly a psychiatrist in from another state, put him up in a hotel for several days and have him fill out invoices in the facility's gymnasium on patients he had never even met.
New Medico hired college students to help commit patients who were questioning treatment to a nearby psychiatric hospital in Binghamton, N.Y. There, De Martino said, New Medico would attempt to get legal guardianship in order to access the patients' assets.
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