New Medicare Cards Coming Soon

Posted on March 26, 2018

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is planning a fraud prevention initiative that will remove 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 […]