SCAMS: What You Need to Know Index

Originally conceived as a big step toward ensuring health care coverage and financial stability for our nation’s older population, Medicare is a federal insurance program that provides guaranteed health insurance for people age 65 and older and for younger people who qualify because of a disability. More commonly known as original Medicare or traditional Medicare, the program refers to the first two parts of Medicare, Part A and Part B, included in a bill that President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law in 1965.

With a Medicare Advantage plan, your coverage comes from a private insurer even though you sign up for Part A and B through the federal government. You still must pay the Part B premium, and these plans must provide at least as much coverage as original Medicare, but they can have different out-of-pocket costs.

Advantage plans may offer additional coverage not part of original Medicare, such as dentalhearing, prescriptions and vision. Because most Medicare Advantage plans have a provider network, doctors you have already who are not part of the network could cost you more or not be covered at all. You may need permission from the plan’s officials, called prior authorization, to see a specialist.

Medicaid is a health insurance program available for qualified individuals meeting certain requirements. Qualified individuals include low-income adults, children, pregnant women, elderly adults, and people with disabilities. The program is administered by states but funded by both the federal government and the states themselves.

INDEX

  1. Section 1: Consumer Healthcare Scam Trends
  2. This section is dedicated to Healthcare Consumers identify and manage healthcare scams.

  3. How to Spot and Avoid Medicare Scams Preventing Identity Theft and Medicare Fraud By Tanya Feke, MD Updated on January 31, 2021
  4. How to Spot and Avoid Medicare Scams

  5. HEALTH CARE FRAUD UNIT
  6. How to report Healthcare Scams and Fraud

  7. FACTS & STATISTICS
  8. Healthcare Scams and Fraud Facts and Figures

  9. Learn to Spot and Six Ways to Avoid Common Health Scams
  10. More information regarding spotting healthcare scams

  11. Healthcare Consumer Common Health Scams
  12. Healthcare Scams are everywhere. Consumer Beware

  13. Medicare enrollees warned about deceptive marketing schemes
  14. MEDICARE ENROLLES BEWARE! MAKE SURE YOU ARE ASKING ALL THE RIGHT QUESTIONS.

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