tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2018 Issue 10

Industry Note: CMS Offers New Medicare Card Project FAQ and MBI Guidance

Last month, CMS started sending out new Medicare cards to its beneficiaries. As with any new federal healthcare rollout, questions and concerns arise - and sometimes these issues impede the delivery of patients' benefits and providers' pay. Reminder: MACRA mandated that CMS institute a card renovation because of identity-theft issues related to Social Security numbers (SSNs) on the old cards. In place of the SSNs, which previously worked as the Health Insurance Claim Numbers (HICNs), CMS started distributing cards via mail on April 1 with an entirely new 11-digit number called the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). The new cards...

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