Senior Medicare Patrol programs help Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries prevent, detect and report health care fraud. 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 5,000 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.

SMPs are grant-funded projects of the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL).
In Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Vermont the SMP program is
administered by AdviseWell, Inc.