About 103,000 beneficiaries may have been impacted by the scam and to ensure their privacy is protected, individuals will be ...

More than 100,000 Medicare recipients will be receiving new cards and numbers after what the agency is describing as a “data ...

New Medicare cards — the ones that won't make it easy for ID thieves to steal your Social Security number — will find their way into wallets next year.

Your Medicare number is on your government-issued Medicare card, Medicare.gov, and websites for other government benefits. It’s important to keep your Medicare number safe and report it ...

Beginning in April, and continuing for a year, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will mail new identification cards to Medicare’s 55 million beneficiaries.

A new, unique Medicare Number is replacing the SSN-based Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) on each new Medicare card. Starting April 2018, CMS is mailing new Medicare cards to all people with ...

Until now, Medicare cards listed the recipient’s signature and Social Security number on the front of the card, as their Social Security number doubled as their Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN).

You can find your Medicare number on your Medicare card, the Medicare website, and several other places. Here are ways to find your Medicare number when you need it.

As people across the country receive new, safer Medicare cards in the mail, advocates are warning about fraudulent callers who try to dupe people into paying money or divulging personal information.