We are inviting everyone to the free "Help Stop Senior Financial Exploitation" presentation on Oct. 22 from 1-3 p.m. at PORA Adult Learning Center in Sun City West (RSVP (623) 584-4288 ext. 415). We are abused and exploited seniors who have been fighting for our rights and for other seniors’ rights for over three years. Our efforts have been recently rewarded by the discovery that our former slumlord is a Medicare fraud felon. His termination has stopped him from continuing to abuse and exploit more seniors. Unfortunately, he was allowed to harm seniors for nearly eight years at a local senior living facility.
Our presentation will include the 10 top senior scams and 15 tips to avoid being a victim of elder abuse. We have just presented 14 ideas to our state representatives to improve and add to Arizona’s senior protection laws. Many of our state and federal lawmakers will be available at the presentation to listen to your senior protection law ideas.
Sen. John McCain, who is helping us with our HUD complaint, has been very instrumental in obtaining many of the handouts for this presentation. Our elder abuse private investigator, Jacob Mueller, will also be speaking at this presentation concerning the need of background checks on the in-home caregivers. The purpose of this presentation is to try to eliminate the criminal activities of elder abuse through education, prevention, and stronger senior protection laws.
Senior financial exploitation has been called the Crime of the 21st Century. Medicare fraud is estimated to be $75 billion a year. If all senior frauds were reported the estimated losses would exceed $130 billion a year. A senior is abused every five seconds in the United States. An average of 900 senior abuse cases, a 43 percent increase in two years, are being reported monthly to the Arizona Adult Protective Services of the DES. Elder abuse is an epidemic in our state because Arizona’s growth of reported elder abuse crimes is over three times faster than the national average growth of reported elder abuse crimes.
Mark and Carol Fairall
Sun City West
Arizona Willie posted at 7:58 am on Thu, Oct 4, 2012.
Medicare Fraud is rampant.
The Durable Medical Equipment providers have been ripping Medicare for billions.
The sell those power chairs to people who don't need them at all.
Sleep apnea equipment that last for years is replaced every 6 months at tremendous cost.
The list of Medicare frauds goes on and on.
But -- it leads back to people who work for Medicare.
Someone has to be approving these purchases.
I don't believe they are doing it without getting kickbacks somehow.
Every Medicare official with the power to authorize expeditures should have his and his families finances audited every year.
And they should be barred from leaving Medicare and going to work for the companies they dealt with previously.
Yes, the DME's are responsible for their end of the fraud -- but it would not be possible if they were not in cohoots with Medicare officials.
And, at the same time they are giving away BILLIONS in Medicare fraud, the same officials give diabets a hard time trying to get 3 test strips a day as recommended by the American Diabetics Association. Diabetics should test their blood 2 hours after every meal so they need 3 strips a day --- now Medicare only wants to give them 1 strip a day. Strips cost only pennies apiece.
VofReason posted at 12:53 pm on Thu, Oct 4, 2012.
This is very sad. This should be instructive to everyone though, "if things sound too good to be true, they probably are". Also, when you allow the Government to take your money and then administer something, there will be inefficiency and fraud. The Government is not setup to run efficiently or sense when money is going to the wrong places. You may have heard about the millions spent on conferences for the VA recently as an example. How long do you think it would take a private insurance to realize it was getting scammed 130 billion? Right.
Arizona Willie posted at 11:12 am on Fri, Oct 5, 2012.
VofReason ... there certainly is tons of fraud in Medicare.
But, it goes directly to the suppliers of medical equipment.
THEY are bribing the Medicare officials ( who work for relatively low salaries compared to Insurance Company Executives and who don't get million dollar + bonuses ) to approve their companies selling the medical supplies fraudulently.
There is tons of blame on both sides.
Businessmen who own the medical supply companies do the bribing and government bureaucrats take the bribes.
Can't just blame the government.
VofReason posted at 1:10 pm on Fri, Oct 5, 2012.
AzW points taken. This is why this is not a great idea. Pay the Government money now for them to give it back to you with inefficiency and fruad later. Why does this make sense. And if it were just that simple, give now and get back later, why not allow people to keep their own money and take the Government out? Or are we banking on the fact that most people won't save money to take care of themselves?
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