{"id":265427,"date":"2024-03-21T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-unwanted-catheters-billed-to-medicare-the-new-york-statewide-senior-action-councils-medicare-fraud-of-the-month\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T00:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T04:20:02","slug":"sondas-no-solicitadas-y-facturadas-a-medicare-el-fraude-del-mes-a-medicare-del-new-york-statewide-senior-action-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/sondas-no-solicitadas-y-facturadas-a-medicare-el-fraude-del-mes-a-medicare-del-new-york-statewide-senior-action-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwanted Catheters Billed to Medicare: The New York StateWide Senior Action Council&#8217;s &#8220;Medicare Fraud of the Month&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ALBANY, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 20, 2024<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), an organization dedicated to advocacy for the rights of seniors in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State<\/span>, today announced its <b>Medicare Fraud of the Month<\/b> for March; <b>Unwanted Catheters Billed to Medicare.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The StateWide Fraud of the Month is a component of the <b>Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP)<\/b>, the definitive resource for <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State&#8217;s<\/span> senior citizens and caregivers to detect, prevent, and report healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse. StateWide is <span class=\"xn-location\">New York&#8217;s<\/span> grantee\/administrator for this Federal Program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Medicare beneficiaries across the country are seeing claims on their Medicare statements related to urinary catheters that were not needed or received in error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Scammers are targeting Medicare beneficiaries and billing for supplies that aren&#8217;t medically necessary, which hurts the Medicare program and compromises the beneficiary&#8217;s medical identity,&#8221; explained <span class=\"xn-person\">Maria Alvarez<\/span>, Executive Director of StateWide.<\/p>\n<p>Medicare beneficiaries across the country are finding charges worth thousands of dollars on their Medicare statements related to urinary catheters that were not needed or received by mistake. The suspicious claim shows charges for 200+ urinary catheter kits being billed to Medicare for amounts ranging from <span class=\"xn-money\">$1,200<\/span> &#8211; <span class=\"xn-money\">$2,400<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez advises <span class=\"xn-location\">New York&#8217;s<\/span> Seniors to protect themselves from such fraud:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>If you receive medical supplies such as catheter kits in the mail, don&#8217;t accept it unless it was ordered by your physician.<\/li>\n<li>Be suspicious of those who offer you &#8220;free&#8221; medical supplies, then ask for your health insurance information.<\/li>\n<li>Medicare Beneficiaries should always be cautious of any unsolicited requests for their Medicare number.<\/li>\n<li>Review Medicare Summary Notices (MSNs) and Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) for claims out of state or by a doctor you&#8217;ve never seen before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are billed for services or supplies that you didn&#8217;t receive or weren&#8217;t ordered by your doctor, or If you suspect any kind of Medical Fraud report it to the NYS Senior Medicare Patrol at 800-333-4374 or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4119576-1&amp;h=3291323675&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nysenior.org%2F&amp;a=www.nysenior.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.nysenior.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The NYS SMP and their trained counselors and volunteers help educate Medicare beneficiaries in the fight against health care fraud. It also provides information and educational presentations.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that Medicare fraud costs taxpayers over <span class=\"xn-money\">$60 billion dollars<\/span> nationally per year. To help combat this illicit industry StateWide announced its <b>Fraud of the Month<\/b> program in 2022 to highlight these scams being perpetrated on the State&#8217;s seniors.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE  New York StateWide Senior Action Council, Inc.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">ALBANY, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">March 20, 2024<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), an organization dedicated to advocacy for the rights of seniors in <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State<\/span>, today announced its <b>Medicare Fraud of the Month<\/b> for March; <b>Unwanted Catheters Billed to Medicare.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The StateWide Fraud of the Month is a component of the <b>Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP)<\/b>, the definitive resource for <span class=\"xn-location\">New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265427"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265452,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265427\/revisions\/265452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}