by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jul 22, 2023 | Scam of the day
For many years Medicare used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number which put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft. Medicare resisted changing the Medicare number to a safer random number for many years. Finally, in...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Jan 21, 2019 | Scam of the day
Medicare has used a person’s Social Security number as his or her Medicare number since the inception of Medicare in 1965 and despite the rest of the country recognizing that this put Medicare recipients in serious danger of identity theft, Medicare resisted...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 21, 2013 | Scam of the day, Site Related
Lost amongst all of the furor around the launch of the insurance exchanges of the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare is the fact that we are now in the open enrollment period for Medicare which will last until December 7, 2013. The open enrollment period is...
