The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has kicked off the New Medicare Card campaign, designed to promote awareness to beneficiaries, their families, caregivers, and advocates. We also want to remind this audience to be wary of scam artists and provide tips for protecting themselves. We hope your organization will join in this effort.
What you need to know:
In April 2018, CMS will begin a year-long process of sending Medicare beneficiaries a New Medicare Card that will have a unique Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI), thereby removing the social security number from the Medicare card. Medicare will automatically mail the new card at no cost to the address on file with Social Security. There’s nothing Medicare beneficiaries need to do! If they need to update their official mailing address, they should contact Social Security Administration by visiting the onlinemy Social Security account.
We have materials that you can order FREE of charge and FREE delivery. If you click on https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/New-Medicare-Card/Partners-and-Employers/Partners-and-employers.html you will see flyers in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Arabic and Korean that partners can download and print, or click on the link there that lets you ORDER these products. I also provided instructions on How To Order
(See attachment). It’s an easy 2 step process to open an account, find any Medicare publication, order and it will be shipped to your address on the account!
