KENNEBUNK — A Kennebunk woman wants people to be very wary when the phone rings and the caller says “your doctor prescribed” medical equipment.
Myra Sparkowich of Kennebunk said she received this box of medical equipment unsolicited after a series of telephone calls from people who knew her Medicare number. Tammy Wells photo
The equipment arrived at the home of Myra Sparkowich this summer.
She said she didn’t order it, and doesn’t want it, and the equipment — a back brace and two arm braces — are of no use to her. The pieces remain in the original clear plastic packaging.
“I didn’t ask them to send it,” she said.
Sparkowich, who retired several years ago from her job as a federal budget analyst, is upset that the callers are now billing Medicare for the equipment that arrived unsolicited.
“I’m concerned the federal government is paying for something that was never ordered and the taxpayers are going to pay for that,” she said.
She said she wants people to know that this sort of thing is happening, and to beware.
“I received telephone calls day-in and day-out” throughout the summer, said Sparkowich. She said the callers knew her doctor’s name and other personal details, and said her red, white, and blue-colored Medicare card “was no good,” and that they would send her another. Sparkowich said she knew that was not true — but she also believes her Medicare number has been compromised as a result of the situation and is in the process…
