{"id":277233,"date":"2026-08-12T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/english-medicare-card-fraud-the-medicare-fraud-of-the-month-for-august\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:45:06","slug":"english-medicare-card-fraud-the-medicare-fraud-of-the-month-for-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/english-medicare-card-fraud-the-medicare-fraud-of-the-month-for-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Card Fraud: &#8220;The Medicare Fraud of the Month for August&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"xn-newslines\">\n<h1 class=\"xn-hedline\">Medicare Card Fraud: &#8220;The Medicare Fraud of the Month for August&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p class=\"xn-distributor\">PR Newswire<\/p>\n<p class=\"xn-dateline\">ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">ALBANY, N.Y.<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">Aug. 12, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 54-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs and well-being of our State&#8217;s more than 3.6 million senior citizens, today announced its <b>Medicare Fraud of the Month<\/b>\u00a0<b>for<\/b>\u00a0<b>August: Medicare Card Fraud.<\/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 New York State&#8217;s older adults and caregivers to detect, prevent, and report healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse. StateWide is New York&#8217;s grantee\/administrator for this Federal Program.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Alvarez, Executive Director of StateWide, explains, &#8220;Scammers are using multiple tricks to gain your trust and steal your Medicare number.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>Medicare Card Scams include:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>SENIORS ARE ELIGIBLE FOR A PLASTIC MEDICARE CARD!\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>FACT: Medicare is not calling beneficiaries offering new plastic Medicare cards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MEDICARE CARDS ARE EXPIRING!\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>FACT: Medicare Cards NEVER expire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MEDICARE RECIPIENTS QUALIFY FOR FREE GROCERIES!\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>FACT: Be cautious of &#8220;free&#8221; benefit offers in exchange for Medicare numbers, it&#8217;s most likely a Scam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>ACT NOW TO GET A NEW MEDICARE CARD!\n<ul type=\"circle\">\n<li>FACT: Medicare does not use pressure or create deadlines to motivate recipients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scammers are using multiple tricks to obtain Seniors&#8217; Medicare information. Scammers may offer free medical equipment, extra Medicare benefits, or a new Medicare card to gain trust and steal Medicare numbers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If an offer related to Medicare sounds too good to be true, it probably isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s important to verify all information before responding to these offers,&#8221; Alvarez concluded.<\/p>\n<p><b>Seniors suspecting fraud should contact the New York State Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) at 800-333-4374 or visit <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/edge.prnewswire.com\/c\/link\/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=4750273-1&amp;h=3216164038&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>.<\/b>\u00a0StateWide has trained counselors to help Medicare beneficiaries in the fight against Medicare fraud.<\/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 New York State.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that Medicare fraud costs taxpayers over $60 billion dollars nationally per year. To help combat this illicit industry StateWide announced its <b>Fraud of the Month<\/b>\u00a0program 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":"<p>Medicare Card Fraud: &#8220;The Medicare Fraud of the Month for August&#8221;<br \/>\n                PR Newswire<br \/>\n                ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>ALBANY, N.Y., Aug. 12, 2026 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; The New York StateWide Senior Action Council (StateWide), a 54-year-old non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs and well-being of our State&#8217;s more than 3.6 million senior citizens, today announced its Medicare Fraud of the Month\u00a0for\u00a0August: Medicare Card Fraud.<br \/>\nThe StateWide Fraud of the Month is a component of the Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP), the&#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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salud"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277233","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=277233"}],"version-history":[{"count":"1","href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277234,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277233\/revisions\/277234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}