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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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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.
Gusman · 61-69, M
@Graylight This is in Australia and I am going to the Medicare office which is a short distance from my home to discuss the issue.
I doubt in this case it is a scam.
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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