Industry Note:
Transition Period To Ease New Medicare Card Debut
Published on Fri Sep 22, 2017
Medicare won’t start sending out its new beneficiary cards until next April, but it’s already preparing benes — and the providers serving them — for the change. “The goal of the initiative to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards is to help prevent fraud, combat identify theft, and safeguard taxpayer dollars,” Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma says in a release. [...]