Get What Is Hcin

There are 3 ways you and your office staff can get MBIs: Ask your Medicare patients. Ask your Medicare patients for their Medicare cards when they come for care. ... Use your MAC's secure MBI look-up tool. You can look up MBIs for your Medicare patients when they don't or can't give them. ... Check the remittance advice.

How does the MBI look on the card? The MBI's 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 9th characters are always letters. Characters 1, 4, 7, 10, and 11 are always numbers. The 3rd and 6th characters are letters or numbers.

Your card has a Medicare Number that's unique to you — it's not your Social Security Number. This helps protect your identity.

The primary goal of the law is to decrease Medicare beneficiaries' vulnerability to identity theft. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) developed a new number called the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI), which replaces the SSN-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on the Medicare card.

MBI will contain Numbers and letters (Uppercase), that will use 0 to 9 numbers and all letters from A to Z, they have excluded S,L,O,I,B and Z so that will help all characters to easier to read. The MBI's 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 9th characters will always be a letter. Characters 1, 4, 7, 10, and 11 will always be a number.

Social security numbers on cards, which are part of the 10 digit Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN), have been replaced with an 11-digit Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) number.

The front of your Medicare card indicates whether you are enrolled in Part A and/or Part B under the heading “IS ENTITLED TO.” If you are enrolled in the Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage) plan or Medicare Part D (prescription drug) plan, that information appears on a separate card and not on your Medicare card.

In response to MGMA member concerns whether new Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) contain the number “0” or the letter “O” on new Medicare cards, CMS clarified that the MBI uses numbers 0-9 and all uppercase letters except for S, L, O, I, B, and Z.