{"id":25403,"date":"2026-01-07T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25403"},"modified":"2026-01-07T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:20:03","slug":"medicare-scams-are-on-the-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25403","title":{"rendered":"Medicare scams are on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New data from the Better Business Bureau shows Medicare scams have surged by 40 percent compared to last year. These calls from scammers claiming to be from health care or Medicare are actually trying to gain access to your Medicare number. \u201cIf you&#8217;re a Medicare recipient, you need to understand the odds of you ever receiving an official phone call from the program are incredibly rare,\u201d Alex Beene, a financial literacy instructor for the University of Tennessee at Martin, said. Suzanne Blake, writing for Newsweek, explains what every senior needs to know to avoid being scammed. Read Ms. Blake\u2019s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/medicare-scams-targeting-seniors-have-surged-by-40-percent-11315828\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/medicare-scams-targeting-seniors-have-surged-by-40-percent-11315828\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from the Better Business Bureau shows Medicare scams have surged by 40 percent compared to last year. These<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,37,791,6,4],"tags":[80,61,326,1984,94],"class_list":["post-25403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cms","category-illegal-activities","category-medical-identity-fraud","category-medicare-general","category-medicare-fraud","tag-cms","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-fraud","tag-medicare-scam-calls","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403","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=25403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25404,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25403\/revisions\/25404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}