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Signing people up for private Medicare plans is not fraudulent. Making robocalls to hawk them like is. Thus the whole product category becomes shady by associat
by supertrope 3y ago
Signing people up for private Medicare plans is not fraudulent. Making robocalls to hawk them like is. Thus the whole product category becomes shady by association (car warranties, solar leases, debt consolidation loans, timeshares).
- costco 3y agoTypical scam looks more like this: They try to get information from your Medicare card. Then with your info they bill Medicare for $6000 custom back braces while sending you a $30 Chinese generic one (some physician who wittingly or unwittingly accepted a "work from home" job may be signing off on prescriptions for these). Despite Medicare policy, they don't care about collecting any copay from you, they just want to bill Medicare. The elderly person doesn't lose anything but Medicare does obviously. See https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.362202/gov.uscourts.flmd.362202.1.0.pdf#page=25 https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.36... for a particularly advanced formulation of this scheme. It's incredibly lucrative and has cost this country tens of billions of dollars a year for at least a couple decades. I wish more was done about it.