Fight health care fraud: guard your Medicare number!
The next Medicare Open Enrollment season (October 15 to December 7) is almost here, which means fraudsters and identity thieves will increase their efforts to get and abuse Medicare numbers from people like you.
Fortunately, there are many measures you can take to fight health care fraud:
Guard your Medicare number. Protect it the same way you do for your credit card numbers. Medicare will never contact you for your Medicare number or other personal information. Don’t share your Medicare number or other personal information with anyone who contacts you by phone, email, or by approaching you in person, unless you’ve given them permission in advance…
Read more HERE: https://blog.medicare.gov/2016/09/26/guard-medicare-number-fraud/
