Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Medicare Number Switch Gives Rise To Payment Glitch

MBI-HICN mismatch causes returned claims. Medicare has completed replacing benefi­ciaries old Health Insurance Claim Numbers, which were based on Social Security numbers, with new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier numbers. But the billing transition is not as settled. Reminder: Although the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finished issuing MBIs to all existing beneficiaries, Medicare claims systems will take HICN numbers [...]
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