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Stopping Medicare Supplier Fraud: Random Phone Calls from Unknown People When you start receiving any kind of random phone calls it can be disturbing to think about what is happening and what people are trying to do to you. Phone calls that are from unknown callers can be scary because you don’t understand the motive behind it, but they are even stranger when you don’t [...] December 25, 2011 3:59 AM Stopping Medicare Supplier Fraud: Protect Your Medicare IDs When it comes to protecting yourself from identity theft or any other kind of financial fraud your goals should be the same, protect your access information. If you can help it you shouldn’t let anyone know your username or password so you can protect your information to all financial records or information. Any time that [...] December 19, 2011 3:58 AM Stopping Medicare Supplier Fraud: Doctor Requirements are a Red Flag Any insurance company in any field of insurance should know better than to require you to see anyone to fix whatever your need for insurance is. Car insurance companies cannot require that you go to one particular body shop and health insurance companies cannot require you to go to any one particular doctor. This is [...] December 11, 2011 3:57 AM Stopping Medicare Supplier Fraud: Be Wary of Free Equipment Medicare fraud has become even more prevalent these days with the amount of money to be made and the ability to prey on the elderly being easy for the evildoers.  The hard thing about Medicare fraud is that it isn’t just coming from those that are trying to defraud you as possible providers, but as [...] December 04, 2011 3:56 AM Electronic Health Records Improve Medicare Record Keeping Streamlining the processes of Medicare to improve performance and better serve subscribers is a goal of Medicare. General recordkeeping is one way that Medicare is improving in addition to improving relationships with doctors and subscribers themselves. Electronic Health Records have been one of the biggest steps forward for Medicare over the last few years. Keeping [...] November 25, 2011 3:53 PM Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) are New to Medicare in 2012 New programs, tests and theories are available and accessible to subscribers in 2012 as Medicare continues to try new options. Doctors and other healthcare providers will take a different approach with Accountable Care Organizations in 2012 to try to make things better for you. Your experience could get much easier and improved through the experience [...] November 16, 2011 3:50 PM Medicare Long Term Care Options for 2012 A few options are available for long term care and how to pay for it in Medicare for 2012. You would have total control over how to pay for your long term care if you used your savings, but that is a risky chance to take. You could go through a local or community group [...] November 07, 2011 3:49 PM $1,000 Rewards are Available for Stopping Medicare Fraud With the continuing problems for the economy and joblessness there is an increasing presence of insurance fraud and this includes Medicare. Medicare has decided to put their subscribers to the task of defending their honor by offering $1,000 to people who are able to stop this fraud. Speaking to a Medicare representative is one way [...] October 26, 2011 3:48 PM Special Enrollment Period Now Available for Medicare At any time during the year you will be able to switch to a 5-star Medicare Advantage Plan after the new process starts on December 8th, 2011. The title really says it all as there is no mystery behind what makes their 5-star Medicare Advantage Plan. To give overall performance star ratings to plans Medicare [...] October 17, 2011 3:47 PM New Dates for Medicare 2012 Open Enrollment For the 2012 plan year you will have new enrollment dates to make your Medicare enrollment easier and more possible to do sooner. One reason for the move is to give you more time to get health or prescription drug plans solved for 2012. Three main periods of time are available to you and they [...] October 09, 2011 3:46 PM

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Debate: Reputation Insurance a Good Idea? by Michael Fertik, Reputation.com February 05, 2012 7:10 PM State investigating insurance auditor The Arizona Board of Accountancy is investigating the firm that conducted audits for the Valley Schools Management Group. February 05, 2012 6:36 PM Scottsdale Insurance Company® Celebrates 30 Remarkable Years of Providing Exceptional Excess & Surplus Coverage Scottsdale Insurance Company, a leader in the Excess & Surplus and Specialty Lines arena, celebrates 30 years in business. Founded in January 1982 by Rollie Wiegers with backin February 02, 2012 11:02 AM Questions raised about proposal for Pennsylvania's insurance exchange Advocates for health insurance reform are taking a dim view of a draft proposal for the state's health insurance exchange, saying it could keep the playing field tilted in favor of insurance companies and against consumers. February 05, 2012 10:05 PM BB&T Purchases Leading Wholesale Insurance Brokerage WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT - News) announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire the life and property and casualty insurance operating divisions ... February 03, 2012 4:56 AM Fears over flood-insurance coverage Thousands of people living in low-lying areas across the east of England could face problems getting adequate flood insurance for their homes thanks to an impasse between the government and the insurance industry. February 06, 2012 1:23 AM Research and Markets: UK SME Insurance 2011 Report Contains Estimated Market Size and Five Year Forecasts Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "UK SME Insurance 2011" report to their offering. February 06, 2012 2:20 AM Want Better Car Insurance Rates? You Have to Make the Call - Your Money A retiree qualified for lower car insurance premiums, but found that out only after a chance piece of mail prodded him to call his insurer. February 03, 2012 5:14 AM Two Insurance Agents Accused Of Embezzling Two insurance agents are accused of embezzling more than $422,000 from their company, mostly by pocketing cash payments made by their customers. February 04, 2012 8:55 PM Sentry Insurance Chooses Varicent for Flexibility, Scalability and Agility Varicent Software Incorporated, announced today that Sentry Insurance Group, one of the largest mutual insurance companies in the United States, has selected Varicent to manage its internal sales incentive compensation processes. February 02, 2012 8:00 AM

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Medicare.gov Data Updates This week data was updated on following Medicare.gov tools: Medicare Options Compare Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder April 30, 2007 5:03 PM Medicare & You 2007