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tci Part B Insider - 2018 Issue 8
Medicare Card Transition: Ensure Your Patients Are Getting Their MBIs in the Mail
The first wave of the Medicare card transition is complete.
With the Medicare card change-up underway, you should be using the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) numbers on your claims immediately.
Reminder: CMS began mailing out new Medicare cards with MBIs in April to cut down on the prevalence of identity theft. “MBIs will replace the existing Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on the new Medicare cards and in the systems Medicare uses now,” CMS explains in a recent update. “Medicare will replace all current cards and SSN-based numbers by April 2019.”
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