Medicare beneficiaries who are victims of identity theft face difficulties getting new IDs, accessing health care

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Oct 11 2012

USA Today: Medicare Won't Issue New IDs To Identity-Theft Victims
More than a quarter-million Medicare beneficiaries are victims of identity theft and hampered in getting health care benefits because the government won't issue new IDs, according to an investigation report released today (Kennedy, 10/10).

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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