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The Attorney General’s Office has recently received multiple reports of scammers calling New Hampshire residents, falsely claiming to be calling on behalf of Medicare. ... To protect yourself ...
Call Medicare at 1-800-MEDICARE or the U.S. Health and Human Service’s fraud hotline (800-447-8477). Report identity theft to the Federal Trade Commission at identitytheft.gov .
A new report from the U.S. Senate Finance Committee documents a range of fraudulent and misleading marketing practices used to sell Medicare Advantage plans - and some of them are real eye-openers.
Apr. 12—Question : For the second time, a local doctor's office is using deceptive billing practices with my mom, who has Medicare Advantage health insurance. It's infuriating.
Health care fraud includes "snake oil" marketing, health insurance fraud, drug fraud, and medical fraud. Health insurance fraud occurs when a company or an individual defrauds an insurer or government health care program, such as Medicare (United States) or equivalent State programs. The manner in which this is done varies, and persons engaging ...
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 ...
Providers charged in separate cases included the owner of medical supply business who allegedly billed Medicare for equipment such as braces that people didn’t need, and the manager of a doctor ...
Jul. 28—(Family Features) Every day, criminals target older Americans with one goal — to steal their Medicare numbers and other protected health information. To fraudsters, this information is ...