Medicare fraud costs the U.S. over $60,000,000,000 every year. That is over $114,155 every minute.  The goal of Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP) is to empower and assist Medicare beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report health care fraud, errors, and abuse through outreach, counseling, and education.

In doing so, they not only protect older persons, they also help preserve the integrity of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.  Because this work often requires face-to-face contact to be most effective, SMPs nationwide recruit and teach nearly 5,700 volunteers every year to help in this effort. Most SMP volunteers are both retired and Medicare beneficiaries and thus well-positioned to assist their peers.