False claims can also damage a person’s medical record. Fake diagnoses, incorrect allergy information, or fraudulent hospice enrollment can delay or block legitimate care.

A scam targeting senior citizens and veterans is circulating in the Upstate, charging thousands of dollars for Medicare ...

Amid the Medicare open-enrollment period from October 15 to December 7, older Americans face an escalating wave of scam calls ...

Florida resident Keith Jones says his Affordable Care Act insurance plan was changed multiple times this year without his ...

The report landed as Congress continues to be embroiled in the issue of whether to extend the more generous tax subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their Obamacare premiums in recent ...

WalletHub ranked Florida as the most vulnerable state to identity theft and fraud due to weak protections and high complaint rates. Florida logged 528 identity-theft complaints and 2,163 fraud ...

Image credit: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times, Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images In this Media Miss Minute, the family of a man killed in a recent U.S. strike on an ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Hawaii generated 2,603 online fraud complaints last year ...

Doug Wilmoth thought he was just checking his routine Medicare statement. Instead, he discovered more than $32,000 in charges for medical supplies he said he never ordered. “Total is $32,880 for ...

A Georgia man has been sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay over $7.2 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to pay and receive illegal kickbacks in exchange for inducing ...