Today my phone ran and on the other end was a woman with a “foreign accent”.
She stated that she worked for a MEDICARE PROVIDER and they had access to my Medicare Medical Records and that they understood that I suffered from BACK PAIN and that it was their job to help me get everything that I was entitled to under Medicare. What do you think the odds of some being on Medicare ( old/disabled) having some sort of back problem is ?
I asked the woman what was the name of the company — claimed to be SIMBLE Medical Co and they are located in FAIRFAX VIRGINIA, phone number on my phone displayed 800-503-5246. Phone number will not connect and could not find them on the web in Fairfax.
My first concern is that Medicare rules PROHIBITS any vendor to contact medicare pts unless the pt has first contacted them and/or the vendor has provided the pt some covered medicare services in the last SIX MONTHS.
Secondly, they claimed that they had access to my HIPAA protected Personal Health Information (PHI).. on file with Medicare.
I knew that it would be useless to call Medicare, after all the Feds/Medicare have been trying to stop fraud/abuse within Medicare for DECADES.
I called the AARP Fraud Watch Helpline 877-908-3360 and much to my surprise, I got to talk to a REAL LIVE PERSON… didn’t have to leave a VOICE MAIL… and according to this person… both Medicare and AARP are aware of this particular scam going on. Of course, with these scam criminals are able to “spoof ” phone numbers that are displayed on phones… Hard to track them down, and they could change their business name in a “heart beat”
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