How Floridians' Identities Are Being Used To Fuel Medicare Fraud

This white paper draws on SentiLink threat-intelligence collection and dark web research to expose how Medicare fraud in Florida has transformed from isolated billing abuse into a coordinated, identity-driven criminal enterprise targeting the state's large senior population.

Read the white paper to:

• Understand how Floridians' identities are harvested at scale through healthcare data breaches, phishing, smishing, and vishing campaigns targeting Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers.
• See how stolen identities move through a structured criminal pipeline—from compromise, to sale on Telegram and Facebook, to operationalization via medical shell companies.
• Learn why Florida is a disproportionate target: a dense Medicare population, complex home-health billing, and a long history of organized fraud rings.
• Discover how shell DME suppliers, home health agencies, and labs provide the billing infrastructure that converts stolen beneficiary data into fraudulent reimbursements.
• Explore the upstream interventions needed—treating Medicare IDs as high-risk assets, tightening provider enrollment, and improving cross-agency coordination—before stolen identities become claims.