tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2019 Issue 2

Industry Note: New Medicare Numbers Are Already the Norm, CMS Says

If you’re not yet using the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) numbers contained on your patients’ new Medicare cards, you’re behind the curve. CMS trumpets the fact that it “sent new cards to more than 61 million people with Medicare across all U.S. states and territories, completing the mailing ahead of schedule,” according to a new release. The original deadline for sending the new cards was April 2019, after starting in April 2018. Technically, providers do have until Dec. 31, 2019 to switch over to using the new MBIs instead of the old Social...

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