[Grovenet] Social Security Number Question

[Jim Katen]

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- Jim Katen



-----Original Message-----
From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
Behalf Of Greg & Cindy Gritton
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:17 PM
To: grovenet at rdrop.com
Subject: [Grovenet] Social Security Number Question

Hi, Everyone.

I have an odd question.

Does anyone know if it is legal for a doctor's office and their billing 
company to require the policy holder's SSN when the insurance doesn't use 
it?  After all, the reason insurances have been trying to replace SSNs as 
the policy/id number are obvious, but I've just been informed that a 
specialist we need to see will reschedule us if we don't provide the 
SSN.  This just seems crazy. I mean we'll provide it if necessary, but I 
thought I'd heard that SSNs  couldn't be required for situations like this.

Any info. would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Cindy Gritton

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