{"id":271436,"date":"2025-06-25T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-doctor-spoofing-calls-the-new-york-statewide-senior-action-councils-medicare-fraud-of-the-month-for-june\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T12:20:02","slug":"el-spoofing-telefonico-de-medicos-es-elegido-el-fraude-a-medicare-del-mes-de-junio-por-el-new-york-statewide-senior-action-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/el-spoofing-telefonico-de-medicos-es-elegido-el-fraude-a-medicare-del-mes-de-junio-por-el-new-york-statewide-senior-action-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Spoofing Calls The New York StateWide Senior Action Council&#8217;s &#8220;Medicare Fraud of the Month for June&#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=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">ALBANY, N.Y.<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">June 24, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; The New York\u00a0StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 53-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs and well-being of our State&#8217;s approximately 2.5 million senior citizens today announced its <b>Medicare Fraud of the Month<\/b> <b>for June: Doctor Spoofing Calls.<\/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> older adults 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;Scammers are getting sneakier. They can now manipulate your caller ID to make it look like your doctor&#8217;s office, Medicare, pharmacy or even a local hospital is calling. <b>This trick is called &#8220;spoofing,&#8221; and it&#8217;s designed to gain Seniors&#8217; trust and steal personal information,&#8221; <\/b>explained <span class=\"xn-person\">Maria Alvarez<\/span>, Executive Director of the New York StateWide Senior Action Council. &#8220;Don&#8217;t trust Caller ID, scammers can fake it, even a doctor&#8217;s phone number,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Scammers might say on a call:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>This is your doctor&#8217;s office. Your doctor says you need a back brace, please confirm your Medicare number to proceed.<\/li>\n<li>Your test results are ready, but we need your Social Security number to verify.<\/li>\n<li>Medicare is updating your records \u2014 can you please confirm your details with a &#8220;YES or &#8220;NO.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>This is your pharmacy. We need your date of birth and insurance information to refill your prescription.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seniors can protect themselves against such scams by doing the following:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>If a spoofing call is suspected, hang up and call back using a number you trust \u2014 like the one on your doctor&#8217;s website or your Medicare card.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t share personal information over the phone with unknown callers.<\/li>\n<li>Do not respond to any questions, with &#8220;YES&#8221; or &#8220;NO.&#8221; Instead, hang up. Medicare will never call a recipient.<\/li>\n<li>Check Medicare Summary Notices (MSNs) and Explanation of Benefits (EOBs) for suspicious claims like supplies or telehealth visits not received.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>If contacted by a scammer or Medicare fraud is suspected, report it to the NYS Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP)! Call our Helpline at 800-333-4374.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have trained counselors to help educate Medicare beneficiaries in the fight against health care fraud. <b>To report Medicare fraud, errors or abuse you can call our NYS Medicare Fraud Helpline at 800-333-4374 or visit <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/c212.net\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4454881-1&amp;h=2675031993&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nysenior.org%2F&amp;a=www.nysenior.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>www.nysenior.org<\/b><\/a><b>,&#8221; <\/b>Alvarez concluded.<\/p>\n<p>StateWide also provides information and educational presentations, assistance regarding any Medicare questions, plan comparisons, appeals,\u00a0billing issues and patients&#8217; rights to all seniors throughout <span class=\"xn-location\">New York State<\/span>.<\/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=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-location\">ALBANY, N.Y.<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\"><span class=\"xn-chron\">June 24, 2025<\/span><\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/\u00a0&#8212; The New York\u00a0StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 53-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs and well-being of our State&#8217;s approximately 2.5 million senior citizens today announced its <b>Medicare Fraud of the Month<\/b> <b>for June: Doctor Spoofing Calls.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The StateWide Fraud of the Month is a component of the <b>Senior&#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-271436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interes-humano"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271436","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=271436"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271444,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271436\/revisions\/271444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}