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Medicare patients are receiving calls from telephone solicitors who are phishing for private identification information for nefarious purposes. The ruse is facilitated by the issuance of new Medicare cards. Here’s How the Scam Goes Down The callers claim to be from Medicare and say there has been a mix up in the assignment of new […]
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Medicare subscribers in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont will begin seeing their new, safer cards over the next few months as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) begins Wave 4 of distribution. The new Medicare cards use the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) code instead of […]
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As Medicare patients start to present their brand-new Medicare identification cards, you might see something and wonder what you’re supposed to do with it – a QR code. Don’t let it confuse your staff. Some Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are putting them on members’ new cards, which replace older cards. The new cards replace the […]
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New Medicare cards with the new Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MBI) numbers are in the mail, but don’t get too excited. It will take up to a year to get them all out. Who’s Getting Medicare Cards and When? The new cards, which replace risky Social Security-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) with the new unique numbers, are […]
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Medicare still plans to mail new Medicare cards to all beneficiaries beginning April 2018. The change is being made to assign random identifiers to members to replace the Social Security numbers used now. Because of the scope of the change – millions of members and changes to existing systems – this has been a long […]
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