• Never sign blank insurance claim forms or authorizations for health services
   
• Carefully review your insurer's explanation of benefits statement to ensure it was you who actually received those services
   
• Give your insurance/Medicare identification number only to those who have provided you with medical services. Increasingly, more people are stealing a consumer's medical benefits information to obtain services in another person's name
   
• Call your insurance carrier with any questions
   
• Maintain complete health care records

Last Modified: July 06, 2010