Medicare provides insurance for nearly 58 million aged and disabled people in the United States, and Kentucky has more than 800,000 Medicare beneficiaries.
Beginning in April 2018, the program will transition to a newly designed Medicare card aimed at reducing fraud. Social Security numbers, visible on the card since the Medicare program began, will be replaced by randomly assigned identifiers that include a mix of numerals and letters. The new card will be called
MBI – Medicare Beneficiary Identifier
.
