There are times when a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) may change. People with Medicare or their authorized representatives can request an MBI change. CMS can also initiate a change to an MBI (for example, if the MBI is compromised).
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By Kaitlyn Houseman – CMS has officially started mailing new Medicare cards to Medicare beneficiaries with the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). In this blog post, we’ll cover how you can communicate the changes to your patients and ways to prepare your practice today.
MACRA requires CMS to remove Social Security Numbers from all Medicare cards by April 2019. CMS will begin mailing new Medicare cards with a new Medicare number (currently called the Medicare Claim Number on cards) to your patients in April 2018.
By Crystal Ewing – By now you’ve probably heard that one of the outcomes of the passage of MACRA is that CMS will be replacing the old Health Insurance Claim Number with a new, randomly generated Medicare Beneficiary Identification (MBI) code.