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07-01-2015 04:30 PM
Your Medicare and SSA benefits are based on your Social Security record and that identification number is your SS number (or a spouse or a parent's number). There are millions upon millions of beneficiaries. Can you imagine the confusion and mixups and errors that would result if everyone was assigned some type of pseudo number? It would never work. Plus it would be overkill. It would be like demolishing your house because you have ants in your pantry.
07-01-2015 04:30 PM
Hello ............... that is your Medicare# ............... Your SSN!!! And your medicare insurance money is taken out of your SS, DUH!
07-01-2015 04:36 PM
07-01-2015 04:37 PM
The A or B is not relevant to the benefits. Everyone pays the same in the state where you live and then can buy a supplemental policy to pay the remaining 20% balance of approved charges that the government doesn't pay. The cost of these supplement policies are also based on insurance charges in the state where you live.
07-01-2015 04:49 PM - edited 07-01-2015 04:52 PM
07-01-2015 06:05 PM
07-01-2015 06:14 PM
It has been advised for years not to carry your SS card. Now, they are advising that you not carry your medicare card. Carry a copy of your medicare card with all but the last four digits blacked out. You can provide the other digits verbally if there is a need for the full SS number.
07-01-2015 06:19 PM
cloudyQ wrote:It has been advised for years not to carry your SS card. Now, they are advising that you not carry your medicare card. Carry a copy of your medicare card with all but the last four digits blacked out. You can provide the other digits verbally if there is a need for the full SS number.
i am not on medicare, but i know that the doctors i go to and the doctors i have taken my kids to ALWAYS want to see my card EVERY time i go in......and they make a copy of it. they want to be sure that i still have the same insurance and that i am covered. they wont accept me bringing in a copy.
07-01-2015 06:20 PM
For years until it was changed Massachusetts driver's licenses numbers were social security numbers.
07-01-2015 06:31 PM
Until the day he died, my father carried his SS card in his wallet. I bet many seniors do too. I remember probably displaying mine in my wallet when I first received it. It's probably only been the last 10 or 15 years that we were told not to carry it in your wallet.
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