David Medeiros, ABI Resources LLC, a provider in Connecticut's Medicaid Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Waiver Program. He lives with a traumatic brain injury. Please contact him by email only: aabiwr@live.com.
Draft as of Nov 5, 2026. Shaded rows are David's reports. Other rows are actions recorded after them. A date order alone does not prove why an action was taken; where the reason is not proven, this page says so. No client names appear here.
| Aug 14, 2018 | REPORT Email to DSS and Allied Provider Services: ABI Resources was missing from the ABI provider list and asked for it to be fixed. Screenshots of the list attached. Record: original email, ABI_007137. |
| Sep 11, 2018 | REPORT Email to DSS: "VERY CONCERNED" about the ABI Waiver provider list published through 211 Connecticut. Record: sent email, Sep 11, 2018. |
| Nov 7, 2018 | REPORT Email to DSS about ABI clients and services. Record: sent email, Nov 7, 2018. |
| Oct 18, 2022 | REQUEST To the DSS Commissioner: "Will DSS please allow ABI Resources to provide RA training?" DSS FOIA replied Oct 26 and Nov 4, 2022. |
| Dec 1, 2022 | REPORT To the DSS Commissioner: concerns about provider-list and referral decisions, described as possible "patient steering, unfair competition ... kickbacks, and/or inducements for Medicaid Referrals." These were allegations, reported for review. |
| Dec 2, 2022 | REPORT Same report re-sent to the DSS provider fraud unit. |
| Dec 8, 2022 | MEETING A DSS meeting with ABI Resources about the report was accepted. |
| Nov 21, 2023 | REPORT 2023 Comprehensive Grievance Report (52 pages). Six grievances, including referral practices, the provider directory not being available, and possible conflicts of interest and kickbacks. An HHS Office of Inspector General complaint form the same day names the report as an attachment. The same day, DSS replied with a provider directory printed Nov 16, 2023. |
| Nov 28, 2023 | REPORT Letters to Governor Ned Lamont, Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, and Representatives Jim Himes, John Larson, Rosa DeLauro, Jahana Hayes and Joe Courtney. Nov 30: the 2,486-page supporting binder. |
| Dec 18, 2023 | REPORT Whistleblower Report with a 74-page binder, to CHRO (read Dec 19, 2023) and DOJ: the State's visit-verification ticket 539494 was closed as resolved while unresolved, ABI Resources' contact information was changed without authorization, and companion-service approvals were stopping after Dec 31, 2023. |
| Dec 22, 2023 | REPORT Same day, three federal and state recipients: the U.S. Attorney's Office for Connecticut; HHS Office for Civil Rights (transaction 01-24-551819); and the Connecticut General Assembly ("Addressing Disability Discrimination and Whistleblower Retaliation in Connecticut"). |
| Sep 21, 2024 | REPORT 2024 Federal Intervention Report (75 pages) addressed to HHS, CMS, the HHS Inspector General, DOJ Civil Rights, HHS OCR, GAO and three Senate committee chairs. Mailed by USPS certified mail on Sep 25, 2024 to all 14 offices, each with a certified-mail receipt. USPS shows delivery Sep 27 to Oct 2, 2024 to the HHS Secretary, CMS, the HHS Inspector General, DOJ Civil Rights, HHS OCR, the Vice President and the Senate Finance and HELP committees; the White House mail room stamped the President's return card. Receipts. Office delivery is not proof a named official read it. |
| Mar 13, 2026 | REPORT 2026 Olmstead Civil Rights Complaint to CMS (disabled and elderly programs, the NY/CT regional office, provider enforcement, the Medicaid Integrity Program) and the HHS Inspector General. CMS read receipt Mar 16. The CMS New York regional office logged it "as a duplicate in SWIFT." On Mar 25, CMS's Northeast fraud contractor (UPIC) confirmed receipt and asked for specific incidents. DOJ Civil Rights record 748277-JPJ and HHS OCR receipt 675301 followed on Mar 28. |
Of 56 possible "who knew" links checked on Nov 5, 2026, 9 are proven by the officials' own written replies, 12 are likely, and 35 are not yet known. Only proven links appear here. Officials are named by role.
| Dec 5, 2022 | The DSS ABI Waiver program manager replied directly to the Dec 1 report, offering to "discuss the concerns that you expressed in your below email." On Dec 9 the same official wrote "as we indicated yesterday in our meeting." Record: the official's own replies, which quote the Dec 1 report. |
| Dec 7, 2022 | The Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut received the ABI provider lists from David. Record: sent email with both lists attached. |
| Sep 28, 2023 | The same official, by then interim director, asked ABI Resources to "consolidate your communications to a weekly or biweekly frequency." 297 days after the official's Dec 2022 reply. This proves the official knew of the report before this request; it does not by itself prove why the request was made. |
| Nov 2023 to Jan 2024 | CHRO intake and hearings staff answered David's complaints in writing before each later procedural step (Nov 30, Dec 22, Jan 12, Jan 16). |
| Dec 2025 to Jan 2026 | The CHRO official who signed the final findings in 2510183 and 2510184 had sent the draft findings in both cases in December 2025. |
| Nov 2023 | DSS FOIA office closes request after request: "DSS does not have any of the requested records" (Nov 21); "responding to complaint submissions does not fall under the purview of FOIA" (Nov 16); "the Office of the Governor would be the best contact" (Nov 29). FOIA archive |
| Nov 14, 2023 | CHRO complaint 2410220 against DSS opened. |
| Dec 21, 2023 | DSS writes that a Gainwell technical issue affected companion-service prior authorizations for ABI Waiver providers. Three days after the Dec 18 report. Cause of the issue: not proven here. |
| Jan 13, 2024 | Printed end date on ABI Resources' Medicaid provider agreement. The date alone does not prove a termination. |
| May 29, 2024 | CHRO dismisses complaint 2410220. |
| Mar 18 and 20, 2025 | HHS-OCR closes complaints 25-599528 and 25-599225: "determined not to further investigate." No reason given. Brief |
| Jan 13 and 22, 2026 | CHRO final findings in 2510184 and 2510183. |
| Apr 27, 2026 | HHS-OCR says it will proceed with the reopened ("remanded") investigation, 26-669246. |
| Oct 14, 2026 | CHRO moves the two reopening requests to Nov 18, 2026, because accommodation requests had not been acted on. |
Full public record: david-medeiros.com/foia. Original emails and portal exports are kept as evidence and are available to investigators by email request.