Industry Note:
Help Protect Patients Against New Medicare Scam
Published on Fri Jun 21, 2019
If your patients ask your staff questions about cheek swabs for tests that their referring physician never ordered, you may want to investigate. Swindlers are tricking beneficiaries across the nation in the latest Medicare-related identity theft scam. Logistics: The fraud scheme involves the illegal collection of cheek swabs for genetic testing by thieves hoping to use Medicare beneficiaries’ data to steal [...]