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MAC Helps You With New Medicare Card Ropes

Published on Fri Apr 13, 2018

Do you need a quick way to determine whether your patient's Medicare number is the old HICN or the new MBI? HHH Medicare Administrative Contractor National Government Services has a few tips. Tip #1: An HICN uses a Social Security Number with a variety of prefixes or suffixes, while an MBI has a random assemblage of letters and numbers, NGS [...]
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