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Let’s Get Cooking: Medicare Launches ‘Chili Cook Off’ to Tackle Fraud

By Alex Moore The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is borrowing the new approach for reducing waste, fraud, and abuse. It’s called the…

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FBI Puts a Stop to $227 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme

By Alex Moore According to court documents and an FBI press release, the defendants are accused of submitting false claims to Medicare for the reimbursement…

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Medicare Has a Tele-Scam Problem

Telephone scammers are bilking Medicare out of billions of dollars, and bombarding millions of older U.S. consumers with multiple daily automated phone calls for everything…

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Medicare Advantage Insurers Overcharged Medicare By Nearly $30 Billion

Medicare Advantage plans have overcharged Medicare by almost $30 billion in recent years, but so far officials have only recovered a small fraction of that…

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Feds Shut Down $1.2 Billion Medicare Scheme — Finally

By Mary Johnson, editor For years I’ve been getting the same unwanted robo call.  “Hello seniors!” a voice bellows.  “Stand by to learn how you…

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Medicare Starts Mailing New Cards In April — Beware Of Scams!

Start watching the mail for your new Medicare card.  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will start mailing the cards this month and plans…

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Fraud And Abuse Are Costing Medicare — (And You Too!)

The federal government made more than $16 billion in erroneous payments to Medicare Advantage health plans last year. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently testified…

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Government To Issue New Medicare Cards

Watch Out For Scams! Medicare recently announced that a big change is coming to Medicare cards. To prevent identity theft and to help protect the…

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Benefit Bulletin: June 2016

Can You Identify Medicare Fraud In This Story? A few weeks after a 90-year old woman was moved into an assisted living facility, her daughter…

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Another Banner Year For Medicare Fraud?

By Mary Johnson, editor “Hello seniors!” the voice bellows. “Medicare covers a remarkable new device that can give you freedom from lower back pain! Hold…

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