Industry Note:
Medicare Number Switch Gives Rise To Payment Glitch
Published on Fri Mar 01, 2019
MBI-HICN mismatch causes returned claims. Medicare has completed replacing beneficiaries old Health Insurance Claim Numbers, which were based on Social Security numbers, with new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier numbers. But the billing transition is not as settled. Reminder: Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finished issuing MBIs to all existing beneficiaries, Medicare claims systems will take HICN numbers [...]