You may have heard about the new Medicare “Doc Fix” bill.  You may not have heard they included a change to Medicare Claim numbers.  In short, they will eventually stop using the Social Security number as the key Medicare ID number.  This change will take up to 4 years to change newly issued cards and up to 8 years to replace existing member cards.  This will be a good change.  Read more about it by clicking the link to the article below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/21/us/new-law-to-strip-social-security-numbers-from-medicare-cards.html?ref=topics&_r=0