Senior Medicare Patrol Had Significant Drop in Fraud Recoveries Last Year

The Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) has been an initiative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) since the late 1990s, initially as a pilot project, and now operates initiatives in every state and territory, staffed by more than 5,000 volunteers. Despite the fairly dramatic notion behind the SMP—enlisting Medicare enrollees to be on…