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Senior Fraud Patrol Reports Banner Year
Published on Wed Jul 18, 2018 
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The Senior Medicare Patrol program continues to go strong, with the HHS Office of Inspector General attributing more than $2 million in recoveries to the initiative in 2017. That was up significantly from the year before. “In 2017, the 53 SMP projects had a total of 6,130 active team members who conducted a total of 26,429 group outreach and education events, reaching an estimated 1.9 million people,” the OIG says in its report summary. See the report at https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-02-18-00130.pdf.
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