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Call Medicare directly at 800-633-4227 (TTY: 877-486-2048). Call the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General at 800-447-8477 (TTY: 800-377-4950) or submit a report ...
If you receive a call from anyone claiming to be calling on behalf of Medicare asking if you received a new Medicare card or seeking personal identifying information, it is a scam. Consumers who ...
Incidentally, if you need a replacement Medicare card, call Medicare (800-633-4227) or download and print one from your online Medicare account at Medicare.gov. The Medicare flex card scam
Jimmy Carter signs Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments into law. The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as mandated by Public Law 95-452 (as amended), is established to protect the integrity of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, to include Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as the health and welfare of the ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association estimates that tens of billions of dollars per year are lost to healthcare fraud, including Medicare fraud. Many of these losses can be attributed to...
According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, scams against government and private health care insurers form the largest type of insurance fraud -- by far. In addition, medical identity ...
Sep. 5—The Federal Trade Commission gives information on the latest scam involving Medicare and COVID-19 kits and what to do if a person becomes a victim of the scam. 1 What is the scam? In June ...