Every Medicare beneficiary is about to receive a new and improved health insurance card! The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says the replacement cards are more secure. They're being issued ...

Your Medicare number, also known as the Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI), is a unique 11-character combination located on your Medicare card. If you don’t have your physical card, you can find ...

In a monumental task to curb identity theft, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is in the process of mailing nearly 60 million new Medicare cards to beneficiaries. Until now, Medicare ...

My question is: Is there a way to have a different number on one's Medicare card? My concern: After years of locking up my Social Security number, I was amazed to find it is now my Medicare number.

Medicare is a federal health insurance program that pays for covered health care services for most people who are age 65 and older, and for certain younger people with disabilities. More than 63 ...

In June, Wisconsin consumers contacted Public Investigator with a question: Will my paper Medicare card expire in 2025? The individuals said they received several calls about replacing their paper ...

As luck – dumb luck – would have it, scammers recently tried to trick this ConsumerAffairs reporter into turning over their Social Security number under the guise of offering “the new plastic Medicare ...

A Medicare flex card is a prepaid debit card you can use for certain health costs. You can typically use the cards for things like doctor office copays, healthy food and over-the-counter health items ...