SPOKANE, Wash. — Reports of a potential Medicare scam have reached the Inland Northwest. People have reported receiving a phone call from an unknown number claiming to be someone from the Medicare ...

THAT YOU MAY GET ON A DAILY BASIS. I HEAR FROM MANY OF YOU ABOUT SOMEONE CALLING YOU, ASKING IF YOU’VE RECEIVED YOUR NEW MEDICARE CARD. I JUST GOT ANOTHER CALL ABOUT ISSUING MEDICARE NEW CARDS AND ...

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. THIS IS A CALL THAT HAPPENS QUITE OFTEN, AND BASED ON THE EMAILS TO THE EIGHT ON YOUR SIDE TEAM, IT’S REALLY RAMPING UP AGAIN. A NEWS EIGHT VIEWER WRITES TO US, IS THERE A SCAM ...

Medicare will never call you unexpectedly and ask for personal or sensitive information such as your Social Security or Medicare number. Scammers pretending to be from Medicare or a related healthcare ...

In June, Wisconsin consumers contacted Public Investigator with a question: Will my paper Medicare card expire in 2025? The individuals said they received several calls about replacing their paper ...

Even after enrollment season, scammers are on the hunt. The Medicare enrollment period for 2023 officially started on October 15, 2022, and ended on December 7, 2022. This is the time that enrollees ...

Medicare removed Social Security numbers from ID cards in 2018 to help stop scams, but this change won't protect you if you give your number to a stranger on the phone. Medicare will never call you ...

LEHI — Debbie Worthington has set her ring tone to be one of her favorite songs — Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler." But now, it's starting to feel like a broken record. She's been getting call after call ...

As the biggest Medicare Advantage insurers see it, something as minor as a dropped phone call can now cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Around the time Medicare open enrollment started last ...

MILWAUKEE - Unwanted boxes of COVID-19 tests and fraudulent charges to Medicare prompted one Franklin woman to write to Contact 6. Lynn Kwiatkowski says she didn’t think much of it when the first box ...

Experts answer viewer questions about how Medicare works, enrollment, supplemental plans, and more. Enrolling in the health insurance program for Americans aged 65 and older can be complex. Experts ...