It’s no secret the pandemic has fueled a range of new schemes. In fact, moments after we left his home, Shomy called us to let us know another shipment of tests had just arrived. There’s no need for all this testing and they’re coming from different companies,” he told us. “The third one came and I’m like, this is not right. Shomy Easow also contacted us recently after several boxes of tests were shipped to his Tampa Bay home and addressed to his 74-year-old mom, who is also on Medicare and also never ordered or requested any COVID tests. It’s sad,” said Robinson, whose now concerned her father’s Medicare information is in the hand of scammers using his personal medical information to defraud the government. I’m not taking my 91-year-old father to a doctor in New Jersey,” Robinson said.Īnd what’s supposed to be free over-the-counter tests provided by the government costs Medicare $94 each, according to the billing statements she showed us. “The doctor is in New Jersey, and we live in Florida. When she started dissecting his Medicare billing statements, she found her father’s unwanted covid tests were ordered by a pain doctor in another state. “We don’t want these things, don’t need them, didn’t ask for them,” her father, Norman, told us recently.Īfter questioning the shipments, the savvy senior asked his daughter to look into them. Over the past few months, nearly two dozen boxes of COVID-19 test kits have arrived at her father’s home in Palm Beach County. So, I’ve got 40 tests sitting here that I haven’t ever used,” explained Diane Robinson, whose 91-year-old father is on Medicare. America’s COVID-19 public health emergency is finally coming to an end, but not before what appears to be a final attempt by scammers to use COVID-19 test kits to exploit the elderly at the expense of taxpayers.
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