{"id":4785,"date":"2011-08-03T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/medicare-fraud-prevention\/"},"modified":"2011-08-03T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T19:44:00","slug":"medicare-fraud-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/medicare-fraud-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicare Fraud Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month we had a blog post about how there is<br \/>\nlegislation to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards. But until<br \/>\nSocial Security numbers are removed from the card, it is very important this<br \/>\ncard is protected with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\">Fraud Prevention Systems<\/a><span class=\"k-marker\"><\/span>\ufeff<span class=\"k-marker\"><\/span>\ufeff.<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p>What can you do to protect your Medicare card? Some people<br \/>\nsuggest making a color copy of your Medicare card and scratching out your<br \/>\nSocial Security number, and keep your Medicare card at home in a secure<br \/>\nlocation. This action makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\" title=\"ID validation\" style=\"cursor: text;\">ID validation<\/a><br \/>\na little bit harder just in case your Medicare card were to fall in the wrong<br \/>\nhands.<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p>Another step you can take is to make sure you review your<br \/>\ncredit reports and Medicare statements on a regular basis. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicare.gov\/\">Medicare.gov<\/a><span class=\"k-marker\"><\/span>\ufeff<span class=\"k-marker\"><\/span>\ufeff<br \/>\nrecommends following these steps:<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<ol start=\"1\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n<li>Review<br \/>\n    your Medicare claims to make sure they are accurate. Check them<br \/>\n    early  the sooner you see and report errors, the sooner we can stop<br \/>\n    fraud. <\/li>\n<li>Learn<br \/>\n    how to protect your personal information. <\/li>\n<li>Be<br \/>\n    on the lookout for suspicious activity. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month we had a blog post about how there is<br \/>\nlegislation to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards. But until<br \/>\nSocial Security numbers are removed from the card, it is very important this<br \/>\ncard is protected with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">fraud<br \/>\nprevention systems.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}