{"id":21264,"date":"2023-05-18T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21264"},"modified":"2023-05-18T08:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T12:22:32","slug":"a-covid-test-medicare-scam-may-be-a-trial-run-for-further-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=21264","title":{"rendered":"A Covid Test Medicare Scam May Be a Trial Run for Further Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Susan Jaffe for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medicare coverage for at-home covid-19 tests ended last week, but the scams spawned by the temporary pandemic benefit could have lingering consequences for seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medicare advocates around the country who track fraud noticed an eleventh-hour rise in complaints from beneficiaries who received tests \u2014 sometimes by the dozen \u2014 that they never requested. It\u2019s a signal that someone may have been using, and could continue to use, seniors\u2019 Medicare information to improperly bill the federal government. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF \u2014 the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(By Susan Jaffe for KFF Health News) Medicare coverage for at-home covid-19 tests ended last week, but the scams spawned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,52],"tags":[68,61,326],"class_list":["post-21264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-fraud","category-pandemic","tag-covid-19-tests","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264","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=21264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21267,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21264\/revisions\/21267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}