Medicare program managers are preparing to begin a massive health insurance card conversion in April.
The program will start mailing new identification cards to Medicare enrollees, in an effort to get Social Security numbers off the cards, to give the enrollees a little extra protection against identity theft.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is making the change to carry out part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, or MACRA. MACRA Section 501 requires CMS to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards, and to replace the use of Social Security numbers with new, randomly generated Medicare beneficiary identifiers, or MBIs.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
