Taxpayer money meant to care for the poor is making some hospital execs rich, critics charge.

Bronx Lebanon Hospital, which received the most state “charity care” aid last year, paid CEO Miguel Fuentes Jr. $4.8 million in 2008. He cleared $2.99 million, making him the city’s third best-paid hospital CEO after Steven Safyer of Montefiore ($4.2 million) and Herbert Pardes of New York-Presbyterian ($3 million).