BC Advantage - 2017 Issue 6

NEW MEDICARE CARDS TO BE ISSUED TO MORE THAN 57.7 MILLION AMERICANS

As a follow up to a CodeTrends article late last year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is readying a fraud prevention initiative that removes Social Security numbers from Medicare cards to help combat identity theft, and safeguard taxpayer dollars. The new cards will use a unique, randomly-assigned number called a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI), to replace the Social Security-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) currently used on the Medicare card. CMS will begin mailing new cards in April 2018 and will meet the congressional deadline for replacing all Medicare cards by April 2019. CMS kicked-off a...

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