{"id":8672,"date":"2017-11-19T10:01:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8672"},"modified":"2017-11-19T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T15:01:53","slug":"8672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8672","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a telephone survey conducted in 2010, one fifth of Americans over 65 reported that they had been subject to some sort of financial fraud or abuse. Recently the Federal Trade Commission warned that scammers may pose as &#8220;official&#8221;\u009d Medicare agents over the phone or at the door in an attempt to gather personal information or swindle people into purchasing &#8220;replacement cards.&#8221;\u009d The attached article lists other Medicare scams to be on the lookout for. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nextavenue\/2017\/11\/17\/the-rising-medicare-scams-you-need-to-know-about\/#6ca2acb18115\">Read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8428\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dreamstime_s_45676758-700x466.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"page\" class=\"hfeed site\">\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"inner-wrap clearfix\">\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<article id=\"post-8670\" class=\"post-8670 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-medicare-general\">\n<div class=\"article-content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<div id=\"page\" class=\"hfeed site\">\n<div id=\"main\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<div class=\"inner-wrap clearfix\">\n<div id=\"primary\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"clearfix\">\n<article id=\"post-8668\" class=\"post-8668 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-medicare-advantage\">\n<div class=\"article-content clearfix\">\n<div class=\"entry-content clearfix\">\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: 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's 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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a telephone survey conducted in 2010, one fifth of Americans over 65 reported that they had been subject to<\/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-8672","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\/8672","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=8672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8674,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8672\/revisions\/8674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}