Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement

Industry Note:

Use the New Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers ASAP

Now that your patients are getting their Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) numbers, you should be using these new numbers on your claims. Reminder: CMS began mailing out new Medicare cards with MBIs in April. “MBIs will replace the existing Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on the new Medicare cards and in the systems Medicare uses now,” CMS [...]
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