CMS has initiated a project to replace the Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) with a new Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI). The new MBI will not include the beneficiary’s Social Security Number.
*CMS expects trading partners to modify internal systems and business processes to accommodate receipt, transmission, display, and processing of the MBI by April 1, 2018.
*CMS will allow plan sponsors and delegated entities’ to use either the HICN or the MBI to exchange data with CMS during the transition period which is scheduled from April 1, 2018 through December 31, 2019.
*Beginning January 1, 2020, plan sponsors and delegated entities’ are expected use MBIs.
*Please see attached for more information.