USA Today: Seniors key to fighting Medicare fraud

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Sep 22 2011

USA Today: Senior Medicare Patrols Help Fight Fraud
Officials believe that if older Americans -; including the growing crop of eligible Baby Boomers -; know how to spot errors and fraud, "more criminals will be put in jail where they belong," Barbara Dieker told a group of volunteers recently. Dieker directs the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Elder Rights, which oversees the Senior Medicare Patrols (Kennedy, 9/20).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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