Abe Wischnia

Special features columnist

Abe Wischnia is a special features columnist at Consumer Rescue, focusing heavily on the Medicare system. He has been a registered Medicare counselor for the past nine years. His goal is to help seniors navigate the complex rules, coverage issues, plans, and premiums while also helping his readers avoid scams and fraud. Abe started his career as a television news reporter and newscaster. He later transitioned to roles as a senior public relations and investor relations executive for companies in technology and biotech. With degrees in journalism and an MBA, Abe has written for newspapers, television news and documentaries, magazines, and corporate publications.

Facts about Medicare Advantage plans, compare Medicare Advantage to Original Medicare.

Why would Medicare Advantage cancel a patient’s surgery at the last minute?

July 20, 2025November 11, 2022

Bob Miller of Columbus, OH, needed cataract surgery on both eyes. He had the surgery on the first eye, but the evening before he was to have the second eye done, he got a phone call from his ophthalmologist. Miller’s Medicare Advantage plan had just informed the doctor that it was not authorizing the second surgery and she told him that she had to cancel the procedure.

“I was dumbfounded,” Miller told me. “It wasn’t like this would be a surprise to them. I have two eyes.”

Why are there so many Medicare TV Commercials right now? Beware open enrollment season for Medicare.

Why are there so many Medicare TV commercials? The truth might surprise you

February 12, 2024October 14, 2022

Medicare beneficiaries are about to get bombarded by confusing TV commercials that will run heavily from now until December. If you do what the ads say, you might regret it later.

So what’s behind this Medicare advertisement blitz? It’s designed to get you to change who provides your Medicare coverage.

Medicare fraud and scams are causing the program to be on the verge of collapse. Our special features reporter explains how.

Medicare fraud: How can you protect yourself against the latest scams?

October 7, 2025September 23, 2022

According to the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services, Medicare loses $60 billion annually to fraud, scams, waste, and abuse.

Scammers are counting on your confusion about Medicare’s complex rules so you go along with their fraudulent schemes.

The lost money is bad enough. But some of those Medicare scams can harm you personally. Read on for important tips so that you won’t fall for Medicare scams and contribute to this problem.

Abe Wischnia

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