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New Medicare Card Mailing Strategy The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is required to remove Social Security Numbers (SSNs) from all Medicare cards by April 2019. A new, unique Medicare Number is replacing the SSN-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on each new Medicare card. Starting April 2018, CMS is mailing new Medicare cards to all people with Medicare on a flow basis, based on geographic location and other factors. These mailings will follow the sequence outlined below. Additional details on timing will be available as the mailings progress. Starting in April 2018, people with Medicare can get information about the mailings and sign up for emails about the status

MEDICARE UPDATE

MACRA requires changes to Medicare supplement plans beginning January 1, 2020. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO MEDICARE IN 2020? What is MACRA? The acronym MACRA stands for the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015. Congress included this to reform the Medicare payment system to share more health care costs with policyholders by no longer allowing “newly eligible” beneficiaries to obtain a Medicare supplement plan that covers the Part B deductible. It also will transition away from using Social Security numbers as identifiers to reduce the risk of identity theft and fraud. MACRA will also change the way Medicare pays health care providers, compensating them on quality of care as opposed

 
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