Feds probing how personal Medicare info gets to marketers
(World News USA)

WASHINGTON (AP) - A government watchdog is launching a nationwide probe into how marketers may be getting seniors´ personal Medicare information aided by apparent misuse of a government system, officials said Friday. The audit will be formally announced next week said Tesia Williams, a spokeswoman for the Health and Human Services inspector general`s office. It follows a narrower probe which found that an electronic system for pharmacies to verify Medicare coverage was being used for potentially inappropriate searchers seemingly tied to marketing. It raised red flags about possible fraud. The watchdog agency`s decision comes amid a wave of relentlessly efficient telemarketing scams targeting...