Date:3/2/2010

WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. is enlisting the help of the National Hispanic Council on Aging (NHCOA) as it cracks down on Medicare fraud, which costs a staggering $60 billion a year to taxpayers at a time they least can afford it.

As the nation faces a financial crisis and crippling recession, the Obama administration's fiscal 2011 budget calls for investing millions in programs proven to prevent healthcare fraud, including the National Hispanic Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) led by NHCOA, to recoup billions lost to malfeasance. The SMP is an innovative program that educates Latinos, who are extremely vulnerable to these scams, on Medicare fraud.  

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