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Protect Your Medicare Identity In PECOS

Don't let Medicare fraudsters steal your Medicare identity and ruin your billing and compliance record with bogus claims. Log into PECOS and check that all enrollments listed in the system were submitted by you, CMS instructs in a new fact sheet. Step-by-step instructions for safeguarding your Medicare identity via PECOS are in the sheet at www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/MedEnroll_ProtID_FactSheet_ICN905103.pdf. "It is important that you protect your Medicare identity from getting into the hands of dishonest and unscrupulous people -- personal identity thieves and those intending to commit fraud in the Medicare Program," CMS says.
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