tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2015 Issue 8

Industry Notes: OIG Recommends Removing SSNs From Medicare Cards

It’s a common complaint: You ask your patient for his Medicare card and he complains that he doesn’t like you making copies of it because it includes his Social Security Number (SSN). Because Americans are increasingly warned not to share their SSN with anyone, this creates a problem both for practices that need a copy of the Medicare card and for beneficiaries who are wary of identity theft. Hopefully the latest HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommendation will change that. On March 24, the OIG’s Deputy Inspector General Gary Cantrell testified before Congress about Medicare...

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