Written By Gerry Alaby

Medicare Scammers Are Targeting New Medicare Cards

Your new Medicare card is headed your way. Keep away from scammers with these tips.

With an end goal to enhance the security of your personal identity, the Social Security Administration has chosen to eliminate Social Security numbers from Medicare cards. That implies all Medicare recipients will get new cards via the post office at some point throughout the following year. Often when transitions like this happen, it’s regular for con artists to attempt and exploit individuals’ confusion about the change. Here’s a couple of quick tips to know to guard your data.

Need To Know

Everybody who gets Medicare benefits will get another card, with no out of pocket expenses.

New cards will be dispersed automatically in waves between June 2018 and April 2019 depending upon where you live or when you enlisted. There is no action you have to complete to receive it.

Your new Medicare card will be red, white, and blue, and never again will it incorporate your Social Security number. Rather, you’ll see a 11-digit identifier that will include two numbers and letters — very similar to non-Medicare health insurance cards. This is to help guard your personal data from being more available to the individuals who may mishandle or abuse it.

Tips For Maintaining Protection From Scammers

Cards will be dispersed for free. Do not accept calls, email, or commercial soliciting asking you to pay a charge of any sort to receive your new card.

You will never need to confirm your identity to get your new card. In the event that you are enrolled in Medicare, your card will be sent out to you automatically. Try not to give your own personal information via telephone or on the web.

Never give out your bank data over the telephone or online to accept balance transfers, pay any medical expenses, stay away from cancellation of your policy, or verifying your identity.

Medicare will almost never call you uninvited. If all else fails about a Medicare telephone call or an email requesting your info, contact Medicare immediately at 1–800-MEDICARE (1–800–633–4227).

Senior Healthcare Advisors is a trusted partner throughout your Medicare journey. In the event that you may have questions concerning potential dangers related with this change, call us. We’re prepared to answer all of your questions about what you can anticipate during this new Medicare transition.

For more info about the new Medicare cards, visit Medicare.gov.

Or Call Senior Healthcare Advisors at (1–886–391–3831)