CV ASC Registry Education-Health Insurance and MBI

Video Transcription

For all insurance matters, the registry will defer to how your facility identifies insurance plans.  Please check with your billing department and select all sources that apply in Sequence 310, Payment Source.  If the patient uses Medicare as a payment source, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, has removed Social Security number-based health insurance claim numbers  from Medicare cards, and they are now using Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers, or MBIs, for Medicare transactions like billing, eligibility status, and claim status.  MBIs are clearly different than the HICN in that they are 11 characters in length and made up of only numbers and uppercase letters, no special characters.  If you use lowercase letters, our system will convert them to uppercase letters. For more information regarding CMS and its policies or practices, please reach out to  them directly as we are unable to speak on behalf of CMS.

Video Summary

The video transcript discusses the process for identifying insurance plans at a facility. It emphasizes the use of Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers (MBIs) instead of Social Security numbers on Medicare cards for billing and eligibility verification. The MBIs are 11 characters long and consist of numbers and uppercase letters. The transcript also mentions that lowercase letters will be converted to uppercase in the system. It directs viewers to contact the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for more information on their policies and practices, as the facility cannot speak on their behalf.

Keywords

insurance plans

Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers

MBIs

billing

eligibility verification