Utah woman says she got hit with Medicare fraud after a supplier charged her plan for unwanted supplies

WILLARD — Linda Karlinsey is a dissectologist. That’s a fancy term for someone who loves jigsaw puzzles. But she is no fan of the puzzling charges that recently hit her Medicare account.

“It really quite makes me angry,” Karlinsey said. “I have no tolerance for scammers.”

A New York-based medical supply company keeps trying to bill Medicare for supplies she didn’t order. It started with over $2,600 in charges for ten glucose monitors for Karlinsey. She doesn’t even need one glucose monitor.

“That caught my attention because I’m not diabetic,” she said.

Medicare caught the fraud and rejected that claim. Months later, the same company charged Medicare over $8,200 worth of “wound dressings” for her. Again, supplies that she says she didn’t order and didn’t receive.

Karlinsey tells KSL’s