They’re millionaires on Medicaid.
Manhattan prosecutors yesterday busted 19 accused Medicaid cheats — including a dentist who earns six figures and the owner of two waterfront mansions in the Hamptons.
“This is really rampant,” the head of the DA’s public-assistance fraud unit, Marcy Chelmow, said of people lying to get on the health-insurance dole.
Yesterday’s chiselers claimed to be poor, even broke, lying on state forms so that taxpayers would foot the bill for premiums worth tens of thousands a year, authorities said.
Medicaid is meant for people with low incomes and few assets. A single adult qualifies by making less than $10,830 a year and owning less than $13,800 in assets.
But so-called poverty cases included:
* Artist Steven Colucci, 57, of West 109th Street, who is charged with chiseling taxpayers out of $16,112 in benefits.
Colucci claimed he made only $5,000 a year. In fact, prosecutors said, he owns two large, waterfront homes on Dune Road in West Hampton, one of which rents out for $65,000 a summer.
* Eufrocina Caluag, 57, of Queens, who claimed she was unemployed with zero income. In fact, she is a practicing dentist in The Bronx, pulling in about $150,000 a year, prosecutors said. She’s charged with stealing $6,931 in benefits.
* Brian Bomeisler, 57, of SoHo, is a well-known art instructor who makes big money with corporate seminars and gets up to $1,400 a client, all by teaching how to draw using the right side of one’s brain.
Bomeisler owns two apartments — one in SoHo and one on the Lower East Side — each worth more than $1 million. But he allegedly claimed an annual family income of only $26,000, entitling him to $37,553 in Medicaid benefits.