Medicare Supplement Insurance

Medicare Supplement Insurance  

Overview

Medicare is a valuable benefit, but it doesn’t pay everything. If you have Medicare alone, a serious illness or injury could exhaust your savings. WPS Medicare supplement insurance plans help protect your health and retirement savings.

 

Nearly 44,000 seniors choose WPS Medicare supplement insurance for reliable health care coverage and peace of mind.

 

With WPS, you can choose any doctor, specialist, hospital, or facility in the U.S. that accepts Medicare. Knowledgeable, friendly, Midwest-based customer support is just a phone call away.

 

WPS Medicare supplement customers also enjoy:

  • Optional dental coverage
  • Silver&Fit® Healthy Aging and Exercise Program
  • Vision and hearing discount programs1
  • 7% premium discount if you and another member of your household enroll2

 

Services available to every WPS Medicare Supplement Customer

To make our Medicare supplement insurance plans even better for you, we’ve added new services3 you can use at no additional cost. They are provided directly to customers as an extension of our efforts to help fight medical identity theft and fraud related to medical services and payments. Identity theft and fraud do not have boundaries or geographical limits. These crimes can happen to almost anyone. We want you to have help within easy reach if you become a victim, so that you can get hands-on assistance. Because we care.

 

ScamAssist™ Fraud Review Service
Don’t be a victim. This service reviews offers you receive to see if they may be fraudulent, researches organizations for legitimacy, compares offers to known scams and phishing schemes, and provides a report of the assessment. These precautions help reduce the chances of you inadvertently providing funds or sensitive information to a con artist.

 

You can submit any of the following solicitation types to the service via email and/or phone:

  • Emails
  • Websites or web links/URLs
  • Flyers or postal mailings
  • Phone calls or voicemails
  • Text messages

 

Specialists review and research any unfamiliar solicitation to give you guidance on the probable legitimacy of the solicitation. In just 24 hours, they’ll scrutinize your submitted message for signs of fraud, do research on the organization, compare it against known schemes, and get back to you with a written assessment of the level of legitimacy of the message you submitted.

 

Want to know more?
For more information on this service, call us at 1-800-221-7078.

 

Iris® Identity Theft Resolution Services Each year, millions of Americans are victims of identity fraud. This protection program offers 24/7 customer assistance and full-service resolution if you should become a victim of identity theft. The list of services includes:

  • Opt-out services. The service provides support in removal from pre-approved credit card offers, direct mail campaigns, and marketing phone calls that can increase the risk of identity theft.
  • Affidavit submission. If your identity is compromised, you get a pre-populated identity theft affidavit to dispute any fraudulent claims or activity. Assistance is available to complete the affidavit. When it is completed, our service submits the affidavit to the appropriate authorities, credit bureaus, and creditors on your behalf.
  • Credit information review. Our service will help you review all pertinent credit information and history to determine if fraud has occurred, explain factors that could have contributed to the identity theft, and provide instruction on measures to avoid further incidents.
  • Creditor notification and follow-up. Our service will contact the creditor’s fraud departments with itemized account statements to dispute each fraudulent occurrence on your behalf. The service continues to follow-up with creditors until each matter is properly handled, all while keeping you abreast throughout the entire process with status reports. The service also assists with the notification to all three major credit reporting agencies to obtain a credit report and provide direction on placing fraud alerts on your records.
  • Emergency cash advance and travel arrangements. If identity theft occurs while traveling more than 100 miles away from home, you can get an emergency cash advance of up to $500. The service also assists with making emergency travel arrangements, including airline, hotel, and car rental reservations.
  • Three-bureau credit freeze assistance. Should there be the need to block all new credit activity on a credit file, the service works with you to place a freeze on your credit records with the major credit bureaus.
  • Lost wallet assistance. The service can assist in notifying the appropriate bank or issuing authority to cancel and replace stolen or missing items, such as debit/credit card(s), driver’s license, Social Security card, and/or passport.

 

Want to know more?
For more information on this service, call us at 1-800-221-7078.

Get answers to your Medicare questions today!

 

Call 1-800-223-5351 or visit wpshealth.com/isba today to learn more about WPS Medicare supplement insurance.

About WPS

WPS Health Insurance has offered Medicare supplement coverage since Medicare began in 1966. Already the most popular Wisconsin-based Medicare supplement plan4, WPS Medicare supplement insurance is now available in more than a dozen states—including Illinois!

1 Fitness, vision, and hearing programs are not part of the insurance policy, are offered at no additional charge, and can be changed or discontinued at any time. The Silver&Fit program is provided by American Specialty Health Fitness, Inc., a subsidiary of American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH). Silver&Fit is a registered trademark of ASH and is used with permission herein. Fitness program is not included with Medicare supplement cost-sharing plans (Plans K and L). The people in this piece are not Silver&Fit members.2Household: Two or more individuals who reside together in the same dwelling. Dwelling is defined as a single home, condominium unit, or apartment unit within an apartment complex. 3Fraud and identity theft services are not a part of the insurance policy and enrollment is subject to contract renewal. The service provider is not responsible or liable for the availability, safety, accuracy, or effectiveness of the techniques, products, tools, or resources used by the service provider in its ScamAssist™ service and your access and use of ScamAssist™ is entirely at your own risk. 4Based on enrollment data submitted to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, 2019. The intent of this advertisement is solicitation of insurance, and contact may be made by the insurer or licensed agent. Neither Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation, nor its products, nor agents are connected with the federal Medicare program. The intent of this advertisement is solicitation of insurance, and contact may be made by the insurer or licensed agent. For costs and complete details of the coverage, call or write your insurance agent or the insurance company. Comments from our customer(s) are a result of our questions regarding their thoughts about our services.

 

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