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New Numbers & Medicare Cards Coming in April 2018

Medicare is taking steps to remove Social Security numbers from Medicare cards to help fight fraud. People with Medicare will begin receiving new Medicare cards in April 2018, until all cards are replaced by April 2019. These cards will have a Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) number that is randomly generated.

You won’t have to do anything for your clients for this. Medicare will send them cards directly, and CMS will send us the new numbers to put in our system. This also will not affect our ID cards. Members may still get new ID cards from us as they renew, but that’s unrelated to the Medicare card changes.

New Medicare Card