Industry Note:
Watch for MBIs on Remittance Advice
Published on Fri Oct 05, 2018
Starting in October 2018, new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) will be returned on remittance advice from Medicare even if you sent the original claim with a valid and active Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) instead of an MBI. However, CMS will accept either the MBI or HICN for data exchanges through the transition period, which ends in January 2020. Reminder: [...]