Medicare scams and marketing tricks heat up as signup deadline approaches

The next call you get from a Medicare "representative" probably isn't a call from Medicare at all. It's most likely either a scammer or a high-pressure sales tactic. A surge of calls have been taking place that are designed to get seniors to crack and hand over their Medicare ID numbers. Sometimes, you risk giving an important ID number to a crook. Sometimes, you're at risk of ending with coverage you don't want. The Medicare annual enrollment window runs until Monday. But the Detroit-based Health Alliance Plan of Michigan has had more than 200 members report that their coverage had been chang...

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