{"id":24590,"date":"2025-07-02T08:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24590"},"modified":"2025-07-02T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:59:27","slug":"103000-medicare-beneficiaries-are-getting-new-medicare-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24590","title":{"rendered":"103,000 Medicare Beneficiaries are getting new Medicare numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have notified 103,000 Medicare beneficiaries that their personal information was used to create accounts on Medicare.gov. On May 2, 2025, the Medicare call center began receiving calls from beneficiaries who had received a letter stating that an account had been created in their name, despite not having previously created an account. CMS has deactivated the fraudulently created accounts, and the affected beneficiaries have been issued new MBIs.\u201d To read Steve Alder, the editor-in-chief of The HIPAA Journal, article, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hipaajournal.com\/cms-unauthorized-medicare-gov-account-creation\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hipaajournal.com\/cms-unauthorized-medicare-gov-account-creation\/\">here\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"134\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7780\" style=\"width:152px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo.jpg 382w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CMS-logo-300x105.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The 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>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have notified 103,000 Medicare beneficiaries that their personal information was used to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,22,53,37,791,4],"tags":[80,1816,704,61,94],"class_list":["post-24590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-cybersecurity","category-hhs","category-illegal-activities","category-medical-identity-fraud","category-medicare-fraud","tag-cms","tag-data-breach","tag-fraud","tag-medicare","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24590","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=24590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24592,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24590\/revisions\/24592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}