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Medicare

Our Mission

 

Senior Medicare Patrols (SMPs) 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. SMPs are grant-funded projects of the federal U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Administration for Community Living (ACL). 

Senior citizen and medicare

Our History

 The Better Business Bureau Education Foundation of Metropolitan Houston has joined the fight against Medicare Fraud with the implementation of their Senior Medicare Patrol program. The program became statewide in 2008. Otherwise known as the Texas SMP, the Senior Medicare Patrol is a group of volunteers trained to educate and inform Medicare beneficiaries on how to combat fraud and waste of their Medicare dollars. This is a national program funded through a federal grant awarded by the Administration on Aging, www.smpresource.org. 

Older Adult

Our Staff

Jennifer Salazar, Executive Director of the BBB Houston Education Foundation

713-341-6184

jsalazar@bbbhou.org


Diane Nguyen, Program Director

713-341-6185

dnguyen@bbbhou.org


Dorian Dotson, State Coordinator of Volunteers

713-341-6185

ddotson@bbbhou.org


Angel Hanzik, State Outreach Specialist

713-341-6188

ahanzik@bbbhou.org


Veronica Alegria, State Outreach Specialist  

956-332-3360


Lilly Chu, Sr. Program Coordinator

713-341-6144

lchu@bbbhou.org


Robert Obregon, Sr. Program Coordinator

956-969-1804

robregon@bbbhou.org



Presentations

We also offer presentations about scams and the Senior Medicare Patrol. Schedule a Texas Senior Medicare Patrol Team Member in your community for a presentation! 


Please contact: 


Angel Hanzik

Email: ahanzik@bbbhou.org

713-341-6188


or 


Veronica Alegria

Email: valegria@bbbhou.org

956-332-3360

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This project was supported, in part by grant number 90MPPG0017, from the U.S. Administration for Community Living, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. 20201.

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