tci Part B Insider - 2017 Issue 7

Physician Notes: Ready Your Practice for Next Year's SSN-Free Medicare Card Transition

Medicare cards are getting a makeover in 2018. With a start date sometime in April of 2018, beneficiaries will no longer be identified by their Social Security Numbers on their Medicare cards. The time to prepare your staff and patients for that change is now. “The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is readying a fraud prevention initiative that removes Social Security numbers from Medicare cards to help combat identity theft, and safeguard taxpayer dollars,” CMS says in a release. “The new cards will use a unique, randomly assigned number called a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI)...

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