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I received a letter from the Department of Human Services

Under the Health and Other Services(Compensation)Act, if you receive a compensation payment of more than $5000, including all costs, you will need to repay us any of the following;
Medicare Benefits.

You need to identify any Medical benefits provided in relation to the compensable injury.
This is to make sure the amount you need to repay us is correct

If you do not do this by the due date, all services listed on the statement will need to pay the total amount.

Then there is a list of Doctors Appointments, listed only by an item number - 57521 ?
The charge for that item and the benefit paid.

How am I suppose to know what item number 57521 was? No benefit was paid to me.

The list total is over $600.
Looks like I will need advice from the Insurance Company, QBE.

All gobbledegook to me.
I only know that no benefit was paid to me because all costs were covered by QBE.
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
$600 is way under under $5,000. I really don't see the problem.

It wouldn't hurt to ask if your insurance is using Medicare to pay for anything. Yet medicare is government sponsored. It sounds like your insurance is private.

Either case you shouldn't need to be concerned.

Here certain insurances do use medicare to pay for certain medical expenses. Yet not all. Most people don't even qualify for medicare. And if they do qualify, don't use it. If they have private insurance.
Graylight · 51-55, F
HEY. There's someone else here with this exact issue. Now I'm sure it's a scam.

Ask them for everything they do to be conducted via US mail and writing. They usually must comply (although with the government, all bets are off). REQUIRE them to call you back from a dedicated landline that will show their official listing rather than a random number - and the government will never be unlisted.

Talk to a lawyer - if you don't want to go that route yet, make a report at you local police department and ask to talk to their best fraud guy. He won't be able to get the bad guys in this case, but the report and info you find may help you in the future should they access your info or money in a different way. Good luck.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Gusman I think you'll be surprised. I hope you are, anyway. No one needs that kind of news.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't know how the American public health and welfare services work, but my first action would be to ascertain if the letter genuinely is from the DHS.

The mystery number, apparent system-bypassing and it being "gobbledegook" are warning signs straight away. Does it match any other correspondence from the DHS? This will seem a silly question, but were the injury and its treatment real; and if so is the implied "give with one hand, repay with the other", right ?

Fraud and other crime attempts using copied organisation identities are common in other countries too, including here in the UK, albeit tailored to the nation's own system; but often contain tiny clues that they are not what they seem. (Scams that have been tried on me, were about my road accident that did not happen.)

So certainly seek advice but make sure your first questions are on the veracity of the letter, and the identity and nature of that numbered appointment.
whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M
"Danger Will Robinson"... I smell a scam..😷

 
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