Scam nurse jailed

A LONG Island nurse is heading to the slammer for overbilling Medicaid by almost $1 million.

Roxanne McKen, 45, of Baldwin, L.I., was sentenced to two years behind bars on Tuesday for padding invoices for taking care of a Bronx boy born with only one lung. She pled guilty to felony charges in Queens Supreme Court last year.

McKen claimed to have worked 20-hour days, for as many as 361 days a year, from 2003 to 2010. She later admitted that she was out of the state — and even the country — on many of those days.

“I trust my God,” McKen told the Daily News before her sentencing. “I trust my God who I serve. That’s my judge.”

The nurse, who has a home in Long Island and another in Ossining in Westchester, qualified for Medicaid in 2004 by claiming she only made $22,000 — despite charging the program $220,000 that year.

She begged the court for a 30-day adjournment before reporting to prison citing a bad case of the flu and personal problems.

Queens County Supreme Court Judge Barry Kron shot down her request.

“The theft of Medicaid funds hurts New York’s poorest patients, including kids who desperately need care, and our taxpayers,” Attorney General Schneiderman said in a statement.

McKen is also required to pay back the $939,000 she stole.

“That’s going to be a very heavy burden on her,” said McKen’s lawyer Garnett Sullivan, who added that his client is unemployed. “It’ll probably take her an eternity.”