Montanans affected by Medicare scams

From Montana Senior Medicare Patrol

Multiple accounts of scam calls have been reported to Montana’s Senior Medicare Patrol, including three in Hill County.

Just this month, several Montanans, believing that they were talking to Medicare, gave out their Medicare numbers. Those calls included “your Medicare number is invalid” and “Medicare is replacing cards with one that has a chip reader,” and in all cases they asked to confirm the current numbers.

A direct result of people’s Medicare numbers falling into the wrong hands is the more than $21,000 in documented fraud cases sent on to the Office...