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Keep Updating Patient Records as New Cards Are Sent

Published on Tue Oct 16, 2018

Prepare now for the complete switch-over in 2020. Another important step in shifting toward implementation of new Medicare beneficiary health insurance beneficiary numbers will happen in October, when Medicare remittance advices will include patients’ new identifiers. Refresher: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) includes the following in Section 501 “Prohibition of inclusion of Social Security account [...]
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