Yesterday I got my Medicare Summary Notice, a quarterly report documenting services and supplies that Medicare has paid for on my behalf. I usually glance at these to see if there might be an impending bill for me, for something that Medicare and/or the secondary insurance did not fully cover. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Medicare had been billed for two batches of urinary catheters (total of 400 units) that were supplied to me last April and May by a home-care provider based in Bethel, Connecticut. Grand total for these was $3800, and after Medicare paid what Medicare allowed, I might still be on the hook for almost $700.
So I called the Medicare fraud number, waited on hold and provided copious amounts of information to “verify my identity”, and pointed out that I did not remember getting these catheters in Connecticut, and I was pretty sure that catheterization would have been memorable, at least according to what I have read and heard. The lady on the other end of the line agreed that it probably would be something that I remembered, and initiated a “fraud investigation” process that would get to the bottom of this. So far, so good.
I asked if I should contact the secondary insurance folks, since they had probably been billed for the $700 remainder, and was told that I should definitely do that. Another phone call, another wait on hold, another reciting of information to verify my identity, and the outcome of this one was that the company who allegedly delivered the catheters to me was already known to them as fraudsters. Dunno why the Medicare folks did not have the same information, but apparently, they did not, since they paid most of the bill submitted by the fraudsters. I hope that they can get it back before the GOP accuses Hunter Biden's laptop as a co-conspirator.
So pay attention to your mail, fellow oldsters, and you too could get hours of entertainment like this!
#Medicare #Fraud
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