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Missouri SMP Volunteer Specialist
ORGANIZATION: Missouri SMP
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You can help prevent Healthcare Fraud
It is estimated that the Medicare program loses $60 billion each year as a result of fraud, errors, and abuse. For Medicare beneficiaries, it results in reduced quality of care and less money for needed benefits. For taxpayers, it results in wasted tax dollars.
Missouri SMP (Senior Medicare Patrol) volunteers play an important role in fulfilling the SMP mission "Empower and assist Medicare beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse through outreach, counseling, and education." SMP volunteers say this work is rewarding because they help protect seniors from falling prey to scam artists, assist them in understanding how to read their Medicare Summary Notice, and how to report any questionable activity.
SMP volunteers receive two days of training to prepare them for their work to provide assistance, staff exhibits, or make presentations. "We want every volunteer to succeed, so the SMP program provides outstanding training programs, tools, and coaching to support them," said Rona McNally, Missouri SMP Project Director.
Call 888-515-6565 to learn how you can join the team of Missouri SMP volunteers.
The SMP program is funded in part by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living. For more information about the national program and other resources, go to www.missourismp.org.
More opportunities with Missouri SMP
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Missouri SMP
Location:
106 W. Young, Warrensburg, MO 64093, US
Mission Statement
Empower and assist Medicare beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse through outreach, counseling, and education.
The SMP program is funded in part by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Community Living. For more information about the national program and other resources, go to www.missourismp.org.
Description
The SMP program, also known as Senior Medicare Patrol program, helps Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries avoid, detect, and prevent health care fraud. In doing so, they help protect older persons and promote integrity in the Medicare program. Because this work often requires face-to-face contact to be most effective, SMPs have recruited nearly 4,500 volunteers nationwide to support this effort. SMP volunteers serve in many ways, including outreach, education, and one-on-one counseling. Most are Medicare beneficiaries themselves and are thus well-positioned to assist their peers.
SMP staff, including paid staff and volunteers, conduct outreach to Medicare beneficiaries in their communities through group presentations, exhibiting at community events, answering calls to the SMP help lines and meeting individually with clients. Their main goal is to teach Medicare beneficiaries how to:
- Protect their personal identity
- Identify and report errors on their health care bills, and
- Identify deceptive health care practices, such as illegal marketing, providing unnecessary or inappropriate services and charging for services that were never provided.
In some cases, SMPs do more than educate. When Medicare beneficiaries cannot act on their own behalf to address these problems, the SMPs work with family caregivers and others to address the problems, and if necessary, make referrals to outside organizations that can intervene.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Any Community in MissouriMissouri SMP106 West YoungWarrensburg, MO 64093
DATE POSTED
March 25, 2014
SKILLS
- Verbal / Written Communication
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- One year