Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Note:

Kick This Bad SSN Habit

Medicare may have nearly finished distributing new Medicare cards to existing beneficiaries, but providers still have until next January 2020 to switch to using the new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier number instead of the old Social Security Number-based Health Insurance Claim Number. Until Dec. 31, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “will offer a transition period during which the system [...]
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