• Pharmacy Fraud: Control Your Risk
    Protect Your Health (and Your Elder's) by Consulting Your Health Care Providers
    Can an alleged pharmacy fraud make you stop and take a look at your health? This one should because while the fraud may not have happened it does point out the need to coordinate your medications (or those of your senior) with all your medical providers...
  • 'Tis the Season (for Charity Scams)
    Don't be victimized!
    Although the holidays are a happy time combining food, family, and friendship, they're also a window of opportunity for scammers, who know that most people are in a giving mood—and therefore more likely to fall victim.
  • Postal Inspectors Educate Public on the Warning Signs of Fraud
    More than 126 million brochures to be delivered
    Using funds seized from convicted con artists to pay for mailing costs, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is sending a brochure titled Do You Know the Warning Signs of Fraud? to every residential address in the country.
  • FTC Issues Complaint Charging POM Wonderful with Deceptive Advertising
    Companies are overhyping benefits of pomegranate
    The FTC has issued an administrative complaint charging the makers of POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice and POMx supplements with making false and unsubstantiated claims that their products prevent or treat heart disease, prostate cancer, and erectile dysfunction.
  • Federal Agency Failed to Report Disciplined Providers to National Database
    Came to light earlier this year
    The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services failed to report 45 nursing homes that it had banned from 2004 to 2008 from participating in Medicare until the fall of 2009.
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