The Wyoming Division of Well being is warning residents to be cautious of surprising callers speaking about Medicaid, based on a Friday information launch.
The division issued the information launch after studying of a rip-off focusing on Medicaid purchasers.
“For instance, one buyer reported receiving a name from somebody claiming to be from a division program that doesn’t truly exist,” stated Lee Grossman, senior administrator of the Division's Well being Care Financing Division.
“The caller was pushing medical tools and aggressively asking for private data,” he stated.
Division and legit division contractors often make calls or ship textual content messages to clients or different Wyoming residents with essential data or for legitimate surveys.
Nevertheless, these calls and textual content messages don’t search cash or request Medicaid or division identification numbers or Social Safety numbers.
Moreover, the division doesn’t try and promote tools or companies to clients or different residents.
Don’t share banking or bank card data with anybody who calls and claims to be from Wyoming Medicaid or the Wyoming Division of Well being.
“If somebody claiming to signify Wyoming Medicaid or one other Wyoming Division of Well being program is lobbying for cash and attempting to promote you one thing, they don’t seem to be a real consultant of our division,” Grossman stated.
“Moderately, they’re extra more likely to attempt to make you a sufferer of against the law,” he stated.
Wyoming Medicaid is a joint federal and state insurance coverage program that pays for medical and long-term look after low-income, medically needy people and households.
Extra details about Wyoming Medicaid could be discovered on-line at https://well being.wyo.gov/healthcarefin/medicaid/.