The government spent nearly $950 billion on Medicare funding in 2022, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but scammers claimed 6% of…
Retired nurse Linda Hennis was charged for $15,000 worth of urinary catheters she didn't need and didn't order. She found 10 separate charges for them on her Medicare summary notice earlier this year.The government spent nearly $950 billion on Medicare funding in 2022, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but scammers claimed 6% of those funds that year, which equated to around $60 billion lost to fraud, according to the Department of Justice.
"Up came the site with this huge disclaimer: 'If you're calling about urinary catheters, you may have been the victim of Medicare fraud,'" Hennis said.Apparently, this had happened many times before. According to the disclaimer, the boutique had received dozens of calls from people like Hennis, but it isn't the one billing Medicare for those items. The store doesn't even sell catheters.
According to Trumitch, this is the way it usually goes: An overseas call center pulls a person's insurance information from the dark web or a data breach, calls the beneficiary to confirm that information, then sells it to a durable medical equipment company.
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