Re: ID thieves swapping names for surgery

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On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:39:34 GMT, indigoace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Indigo
Ace) promised to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth but instead wrote:

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 23:25:38 +1100, "JonesieCat" <Long Ago & Far Away>
wrote:

Makes sense I guess. Surprised we don't hear about more of this type of
theft. And seems I have heard of people actually "lending" their insur cards
to relatives or friends as well? Haven't I? Maybe I'm dreaming.

Yeah, I think I've heard of that too.

It definitely happens here in the U.S., as well. Mostly with government
programs such as Medicare or Medicaid, though occasionally with private or
commercial insurance, as well. Particularly in Tennessee where people the
country over come because it used to be so easy to get on TennCare (Tennessee's
version of Medicaid), they treat their insurance cards like they're credit
cards. Of course I guess this has gotten a little harder with some of the
recent TennCare reforms, but the gov's had to make so many concessions on it
that he might as well not have bothered to try. I've caught a few individuals
committing precisely that type of fraud by noting the handwriting on waiver
forms & such versus handwriting elsewhere in their policy folder. Insurance
fraud is so easy to commit, but only because there aren't nearly as many people
working in the insurance industry as there'd need to be to catch it all.

I believe you could probably get more info on this if you wanted by writing to
the fraud & abuse investigations unit of any insurance company - provided they
have time to seriously correspond with you, of course. Just watch how you ask &
what you ask, or they may think you're doing "preparatory research" rather than
just satisfying your own curiosity. ;-) I imagine the staff of most hospitals
& doctor's offices would be familiar with the subject, as well, though more of
them appear to be perpetrating fraud than ever investigate it.
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L8r,
Uncle Buck
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