It’s mid-November and the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment season is in full swing.
While the 2022-2023 official numbers won’t be available until 2023, last year’s open enrollment period saw 14.5 million Americans sign up for a government-sponsored health care insurance plan.
ACA open enrollment, which goes from November 1, 2022, to February 15, 2023, also brings some risks to the table in the form of health care-related scams and fraudulent activity.
Those scams usually present themselves as health insurance deals that are too good to be true, which should be a red flag for health care consumers, but time and time again, that’s not the case.
“According to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), healthcare scams do spike during open enrollment,” said OneRep chief executive officer Dimitri Shelest. “People looking for health care plans can expect an increase in spam calls and emails. In daily interactions with our health care provider clients, they note users are reporting an increase in such activities already. It’s definitely top of mind for them.”
The Biggest ACA Open Enrollment Scams for 2022-2023
Fraud experts are sounding the alarm on ACA-related scams, which appear to be getting more aggressive.
“These attacks are almost always sophisticated operations involving social engineering and digging for a victim’s personal information,” Shelest told TheStreet. “Criminals collect this information from any source available to them–from…
