New Medicare Card Mailing Complete, 58% of Claims
Submitted with MBI
CMS finished mailing new
Medicare cards to people with Medicare across all mailing waves, including Wave 7 states
and territories and also to people with Medicare Parts A&B who live
in Canada and Mexico.
Medicare patients are using
their new cards in doctor’s offices and other health care facilities.
For the week ending January 11, 2019, fee-for-service health care
providers submitted 58% of claims with new Medicare Beneficiary
Identifiers (MBIs), showing that many of you are already successfully
submitting claims with MBIs. While you can continue using the former
Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Numbers during the
transition period, we encourage you to use the new MBIs for all
Medicare transactions.
To ensure that you have
access to your patients’ new numbers, you can individually look up MBIs
if you have access to your Medicare Administrative Contractor's secure provider portal. Likewise, your
patients can access their new Medicare numbers or print official cards
within their secure MyMedicare.gov accounts.
If your Medicare patients
say they did not get a card, instruct them to:
- Look for unopened mail. We mailed new Medicare
cards in a plain white envelope from the Department of Health and
Human Services.
- Sign into MyMedicare.gov to get their new
numbers or print official cards. They need to create an account if
they do not already have one.
- Call 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227), so we can
help them get their new cards.
- Continue to use their current cards to get
health care services. They can use their old cards until December
31, 2019.
The Medicare Learning Network®, MLN Connects®, and
MLN Matters® are registered
trademarks of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS).
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