New Medicare login to be required

MACKTEXAS

MACKTEXAS

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I've had a Medicare account online for years. Logging in has been simple, requiring just a user name and password.

After I logged into my account today, I received the automatically generated email below. So, it appears Medicare is lining up to be as strict as Social Security soon about logging in.

I'm just letting you know, in case you visit your Medicare site and haven't set up a secure ID yet. I have a secure ID with Social Security, but have not yet verified to see if the same password from my SS a/c will get me in to Medicare, and I'm not in the mood for that today, so it will have to wait until I'm in the right frame of mind.

This is the email I'm referring to, in unformatted text:

"Next time you visit the Medicare account log in page (if you haven't already), you'll see a new log in page with some new options to access your Medicare information.

You'll see we've partnered with three leading identity verification services — ID.me, CLEAR® and Login.gov — that you can now use to access your Medicare account on Medicare.gov. These services help prevent fraud and ensure you're the only one who can access your information. And these services are all free to use!

If you already use one of these trusted services with another government agency, like the IRS or SocialSecurity, that's great! You can use your existing ID.me,CLEAR® or Login.gov account to log in to your Medicare account.

If you don't have an existing account with one of the three services listed above, visit Medicare.gov/account/login to learn how to create one.

Note: At this time, you can still use your username and password from when you created your Medicare account. Eventually you will only be able to use one of the three new services listed above."
 
Yes I got the same e-mail when I logged in.
It is just another way of keeping an eye on everyone and tracking people.
I learned a lone time ago, if you do not want it out there, do not not put it out there.
Your phone, PC, laptop or anything that connects to the internet.
There are cameras everywhere.
There is no such thing as privacy anymore.

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The new Medicare login does seem to mirror that of SS. Nice of you to give the heads up. My Medicare plan is through Aetna (via my retiree benefits). We were instructed not to use the government issued Medicare if we wanted to remain in our group plan. So I login on Aetna's site.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
I've had a Medicare account online for years. Logging in has been simple, requiring just a user name and password.

After I logged into my account today, I received the automatically generated email below. So, it appears Medicare is lining up to be as strict as Social Security soon about logging in.

I'm just letting you know, in case you visit your Medicare site and haven't set up a secure ID yet. I have a secure ID with Social Security, but have not yet verified to see if the same password from my SS a/c will get me in to Medicare, and I'm not in the mood for that today, so it will have to wait until I'm in the right frame of mind.

This is the email I'm referring to, in unformatted text:

"Next time you visit the Medicare account log in page (if you haven't already), you'll see a new log in page with some new options to access your Medicare information.

You'll see we've partnered with three leading identity verification services — ID.me, CLEAR® and Login.gov — that you can now use to access your Medicare account on Medicare.gov. These services help prevent fraud and ensure you're the only one who can access your information. And these services are all free to use!

If you already use one of these trusted services with another government agency, like the IRS or SocialSecurity, that's great! You can use your existing ID.me,CLEAR® or Login.gov account to log in to your Medicare account.

If you don't have an existing account with one of the three services listed above, visit Medicare.gov/account/login to learn how to create one.

Note: At this time, you can still use your username and password from when you created your Medicare account. Eventually you will only be able to use one of the three new services listed above."
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Regarding Social Security (a couple years back):
Setting it up was a little unusual but logging in using Login.gov was pretty simple.

I had to use ID.me as part of the Login.gov setup.
 
OldFeller said:
Regarding Social Security (a couple years back):
Setting it up was a little unusual but logging in using Login.gov was pretty simple.

I had to use ID.me as part of the Login.gov setup.
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My attempt to set up a SSA login thru login.gov failed back when I tried around a year ago, forcing me to drive the 40 miles to my "local" office for assistance. The person who helped me also had difficulty setting it up for me and had to try 3 times before it worked.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
The new Medicare login does seem to mirror that of SS. Nice of you to give the heads up. My Medicare plan is through Aetna (via my retiree benefits). We were instructed not to use the government issued Medicare if we wanted to remain in our group plan. So I login on Aetna's site.
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Claims for Medicare Advantage plans, or other such plans are not processed by Medicare, so visiting the Medicare website won't produce claim information, but retirees with part A & B still have a Medicare issued number, and Medicare recently changed my Medicare number. The Advantage plan website isn't part of that process.
 
Coconut said:
if you do not want it out there, do not not put it out there.
Your phone, PC, laptop or anything that connects to the internet.
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I get your point. The information, however, is already "out there" - our bank information, our SSA information, Medicare information, credit information, etc. Even if we never log in anywhere, it's all subject to being compromised by any infiltration of the databases of the organizations who store it.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
My attempt to set up a SSA login thru login.gov failed back when I tried around a year ago, forcing me to drive the 40 miles to my "local" office for assistance. The person who helped me also had difficulty setting it up for me and had to try 3 times before it worked.
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Now that I hear your story, I remember it was weird. I was never sure if what I did was going to work. The steps were all over the place. The ID.me thing kept you wondering. I don't remember if I had to do it twice but that sounds likely.
 
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