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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
If you suspect that you’ve been involved in a Medicare scam, report it as soon as possible. Here are some ways you can do that: Call Medicare directly at 800-633-4227 (TTY: 877-486-2048).
Treat your Medicare card like a credit card and only give your Medicare number to your health care providers, your health insurance company, and people you trust that work with Medicare, such as ...
• 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.
Medicare scam calls are a type of identity theft. The goal of most calls is to obtain a person’s Medicare number and other sensitive information, such as bank account or Social Security numbers.
Aging services in Cascade and Missoula Counties are urging vigilance for Medicare enrollees around a scam offering free services or equipment in exchange for Medicare numbers.
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (H.R. 2, Pub. L. 114–10 (text)) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, is a United States statute. Revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 , the Bipartisan Act was the largest scale change to the American health care system following the Affordable Care Act in 2010.
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...