Calls Offering Free Medical Braces Continue to Scam Seniors and Taxpayers

Federal action to hold telemedicine companies, durable medical equipment providers, and doctors and corporate executives accountable for a major scam that has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $1 billion has not apparently curtailed phony robocall offers for free medical braces directed at seniors, reports ABC11TV . The scam was exposed last fall, when seniors in Raleigh, N.C., received medical braces they never ordered. Seniors are still billed despite their refusal, with Medicare or insurance plans having to pick up the tab. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published a fraud alert about the nationwide brace scam.