National Consumer Protection Technical Resource Center
The following article is excerpted from SilverPlanet.com:
Volunteer Program Targets Medicare Fraud
SMPs train seniors to recognize scams
A few older adults are milling around outside a senior center. Someone approaches them and offers to arrange to purchase scooters for them through Medicare. Because they’ll need physicals before being approved for the scooters—and they’ll need a ride—the person offers to drive them as a group to see a doctor, all for free. After a brief check of their vital signs, the seniors go home. And wait. Sometimes the scooter never arrives, but the Medicare statement does; sometimes a cheap scooter shows up, but Medicare is paying for a really nice one. And someone else, the thief who billed Medicare, pocketed the difference. Read more. . . .
