{"id":22686,"date":"2024-04-09T11:51:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22686"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T15:51:34","slug":"after-public-push-cms-curbs-health-insurance-agents-access-to-consumer-ssns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22686","title":{"rendered":"After Public Push, CMS Curbs Health Insurance Agents\u2019 Access to Consumer SSNs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until last week, the system that is used to enroll people in federal Affordable Care Act insurance plans inadvertently allowed access by insurance brokers to consumers\u2019 full Social Security numbers, information brokers don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That raised concerns about the potential for misuse.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/aca-marketplace-ssn-social-security-numbers-agents\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/aca-marketplace-ssn-social-security-numbers-agents\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"17\" class=\"wp-image-21118\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image.png 500w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-300x34.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Appleby for KFF Health News) Until last week, the system that is used to enroll people in federal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,200],"tags":[97,80,1240,1220],"class_list":["post-22686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-cms","category-health-insurance","tag-aca","tag-cms","tag-consumers-social-security-numbers","tag-insurance-brokers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22687,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22686\/revisions\/22687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}