Industry Note:
Know Your 'O's From Your Zeroes
Published on Fri Mar 01, 2019
Don’t forget that the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers do not contain “Os,” but instead utilize zeros, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reminds providers in a new message. Nuts and bolts: Each unique MBI consists of 11 randomly-generated alphanumeric characters. CMS uses the numbers 0-9 and uppercase letters from A-Z in the MBIs, according to MLN Matters SE18006. Important: [...]