To address fraud, confidentiality and security concerns, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will be replacing the Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) with a new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). As of April 1, 2018, CMS will be able to process both the old HICN and the new MBI in all transactions.
As a leader in industry innovation, 91福利社is updating our software to accommodate the collection and submission of the new MBI number on CMS transactions:
These new features will be available later this month.
The requires CMS to remove Social Security Numbers from all Medicare cards by April 2019. CMS will have a transition period that runs through December 31, 2019, that will allow either the MBI or the HICN to be used for Medicare-related processing. Effective January 1,,2020, CMS transactions will only accept the new MBI number with only a few exceptions.
91福利社remains a dedicated partner in guiding you through this change. Additional detailed information will be added to our software updates when needed.
