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Give Your Patients This Advice If They Accidentally Throw Away Their New MBI-Based Medicare Cards

Published on Fri Oct 12, 2018

Your patients receive so much junk mail, it’s hard to blame them for accidentally tossing valid mail by mistake. But what should they do if they pitched their new Medicare card that replaced the Social Security Number with the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier? “Ask them to call 1-800-MEDICARE and request a replacement,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services advises on [...]
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