New Medicare Beneficiary Identifier
Understanding the Transition to new Identifiers
Key Points about MBIs
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Hicns no longer exchanged with beneficiaries, providers or plans with limited exceptions.
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Randomly generated 11-digit identifiers that contain uppercase, alphabetic and numeric characters.
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Will occupy the same field as the hicn on transactions.
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Will be unique to each beneficiary. husband and wife will have their own MBI cards.
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MBI s will be made smaller to match the size of a standard credit card..
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Cards will not include gender or signature.
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Cards will be printed on white paper and will still be red, white and blue coloring.
Approved Admissions, will automatically pre-fill MBI or old SSN numbers -this saves time being spent on tracking those down when running eligibility transactions.
