by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Apr 2, 2025 | 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. | Oct 4, 2024 | Scam of the day
The annual open enrollment period for Medicare begins on October 15th and will end on December 7th. This is the only time during the year that people enrolled in Medicare can change their Medicare health plans, Medigap plans and prescription drug plans. By now,...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 26, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
As I reported to you many times before, Medicare continues to use enrollees’ Social Security numbers as their identification numbers featured prominently on their Medicare identification cards. This, of course, increases dramatically the risk of identity theft...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Oct 14, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The annual Medicare open enrollment period will be starting tomorrow and continue until December 7th. The open enrollment period is the only opportunity Medicare recipients have each year during which to change their Medicare D prescription drug plan. Medicare D...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Aug 25, 2012 | Scam of the day, Site Related
The latest scam involving Medicare going on around the country at this time involves the victim receiving a telephone call from someone purporting to be a representative of Medicare notifying the victim that new Medicare cards are being issued and that in order to...
