{"id":8183,"date":"2017-09-15T10:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8183"},"modified":"2017-09-15T10:42:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T14:42:29","slug":"8183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8183","title":{"rendered":"New Medicare Cards Starting Next April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent interview, Medicare chief Seema Verma said &#8220;Criminals are increasingly targeting people age 65 and older for medical identity theft and we are committed to preventing fraud.&#8221; \u009d Starting next April, Medicare will begin to mail out new cards to Medicare beneficiaries. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/ap-newsbreak-medicare-card-remake-to-protect-seniors\/444368123\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=56368223&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8LYoKbYsnqYjxx1E2z2tUikSkYnKmBBc6MdVwasEQ389Z6bE2Qk8VHpOQ3MJUxxaXZwjZ5SsQLt7NJscgaCCUcd6_xGg&amp;_hsmi=56368223\">Read article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8006\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/iStock_000012554417Small-700x497.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice: 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&#8217;s 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>In a recent interview, Medicare chief Seema Verma said &#8220;Criminals are increasingly targeting people age 65 and older for medical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}