{"id":11991,"date":"2018-11-14T09:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11991"},"modified":"2018-11-14T09:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T14:12:06","slug":"fraud-costs-the-government-and-consumers-billions-every-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11991","title":{"rendered":"Fraud costs the government and consumers billions every year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Scams against government and private health care insurers form the largest type of insurance fraud according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Medicare is a frequent target, scammers are using this year\u2019s newly issued Medicare ID cards to steal money or the person\u2019s identity and use it for their own medical care or sell it on the black market. Read attached article for list of tips for preventing Medicare fraud. <a href=\"https:\/\/health.usnews.com\/health-care\/health-insurance\/articles\/2018-11-13\/how-to-avoid-medicare-scams\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8006\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scams against government and private health care insurers form the largest type of insurance fraud according to the Coalition Against<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11993,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11991\/revisions\/11993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}