ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Nearly five million Floridians are enrolled in Medicare, which is the federal health insurance program that pays for covered health care services for most people who are age 65 ...

Medicare will never call you unexpectedly and ask for personal or sensitive information such as your Social Security or Medicare number. Scammers pretending to be from Medicare or a related healthcare ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Reports of a potential Medicare scam have reached the Inland Northwest. People have reported receiving a phone call from an unknown number claiming to be someone from the Medicare ...

LEHI — Debbie Worthington has set her ring tone to be one of her favorite songs — Kenny Rogers' "The Gambler." But now, it's starting to feel like a broken record. She's been getting call after call ...

For many older Americans, the phone has become a source of anxiety instead of connection. The calls often start early, around 7 a.m., and don’t let up until dinner. They arrive every few minutes, ...

Complaints about the calls have risen, and some older Americans have discovered that their Medicare accounts were already compromised. Steven Kurutz, 80, has been receiving up to 60 Medicare scam ...

Sept. 27--Hang up and keep hanging up. Or better yet, just don't answer. Scammers are hitting mobile phones and landlines with all sorts of wacky pitches -- including false claims about what you need ...

As the biggest Medicare Advantage insurers see it, something as minor as a dropped phone call can now cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Around the time Medicare open enrollment started last ...