{"id":2291,"date":"2026-02-14T06:06:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/?page_id=2291"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:12:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:12:37","slug":"shawn-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/meetings-events\/events\/archived-events\/vfn-conference-2026\/speakers\/shawn-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shawn Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shawn presently serves at the State Director for the Virginia Senior Medicare Patrol (SMP), a Medicare advocacy program focused on educating and supporting seniors in preventing, detecting, and reporting healthcare fraud, errors, and abuse. Shawn leads a team of over a hundred paid and volunteer staff in providing services statewide through subcontract partnerships with the state\u2019s 25 local area agencies on aging. His work with the SMP led him to author 101 Fraud Tips, an economic empowerment resource designed to help seniors protect their assets and identity from scammers. Shawn travels the state making presentations and serves as an SME on various panels and committees. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Smith<br \/>\nShawn Smith, Virginia Senior Medicare Patrol &#8211; will present important information to help beneficiaries understand, protect, and make the most of their Medicare benefits. His session will focus on preventing Medicare fraud, recognizing scams, and empowering participants with tools to safeguard their healthcare coverage and personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"parent":2214,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-2291","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2291\/revisions\/2295"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/va\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}