In Georgia, New Medicare Cards Are Arriving: How To Protect Them, Avoid Scams

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September 5th, 2018

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun mailing new cards to Medicare members in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina. The new cards use an 11-character Medicare identifier that contains both numbers and letters, reducing the opportunity for fraud and providing what federal officials say are better safeguards of health and financial information.

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We often get new cards in the mail, from credit to retail to random discounts, many of them unwanted.

But there’s a very important card on its way – or newly arrived – for hundreds of thousands of Georgians 65 and older. Don’t toss it into the junk mail pile.

Medicare is replacing its card for beneficiaries, shipping them a new one that does not have the person’s Social Security number.

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