Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Know Your 'O's From Your Zeroes

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: [...]
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