 One local financial organization is warning the public about a medicare scam going around the Brainerd Lakes area. Sarah Winkelman has the details on how to stay safe during this major change for medicare. There will be big changes coming for Minnesotans on medicare in 2019. According to the Minnesota Board of Aging, nearly half of Minnesotans on medicare will be affected. There's a certain type of medicare plan that is going to be phased out. Cost plans affected in minnesota including crowing county are blue cross platinum blue plans health partners freedom plans and medica prime solution plans. If you're currently enrolled in a plan that is being phased out you can't expect to hear from providers but only through the mail in the next couple of months. They'll see even more information as we get closer to open enrollment which starts October 15th. All of that information will come through the mail but local residents are getting phone calls stating that your quote for health insurance is ready. They're being very generic about it but when they say we have your quote ready for you obviously they're not talking about medicare and they're trying to get them on the phone. Brian from central choice financial in Baxter has even heard from clients that these scam phone calls show up with a 218 area code. It's hard to keep up in this world of technology and how just surprised how people are spending so much time to scam people. But what it all adds up to is to not give out personal information to unknown sources. Nobody should be calling you if you're a medicare member except your local agent. Reporting in Baxter Sarah Winckelman, Lakeland News. If you need to change plans you can call the senior linkage line at 1-800-333-2433 to safely get information about a new plan.