(CBS DETROIT)- Health Alliance Plan (HAP), a Michigan-based nonprofit health plan, is cautioning consumers about a recent Medicare scam. Unsuspecting consumers are being engaged in conversations about ...

Every Medicare beneficiary is about to receive a new and improved health insurance card! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says the replacement cards are more secure. They're being issued ...

DEAR SAVVY SENIOR: I just received my Medicare card in the mail and was surprised to see that the ID number is the same as my Social Security number. I know it’s a bad idea to carry around anything ...

The federal government continues putting Social Security numbers on Medicare identification cards and quarterly summaries mailed to beneficiaries, raising the odds of identity theft and fraudulent ...

There is a real problem happening in the senior community when it comes to taking selfies or pictures of personal information and posting them on social media. It might not feel like a privacy issue ...

In a monumental task to curb identity theft, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is in the process of mailing nearly 60 million new Medicare cards to beneficiaries. Until now, Medicare ...

Medicare officials are mailing out new identification cards as they beef up security measures while warning of possible scams. Beneficiaries living in Delaware, Washington, D.C., Maryland, ...

WASHINGTON—The federal Medicare agency has endorsed the use of unique identification numbers in billing records for medical devices, a move safety advocates say is crucial in helping detect ...

Medicare from 2000 to 2007 paid between $60 million and $92 million to medical suppliers that used the identification numbers of dead physicians to file fraudulent claims, according to a report ...