[Grovenet] Social Security Number Question

[Jeff Howden]

Cindy,

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> From: Greg & Cindy Gritton
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> 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.
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This may be helpful.

http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs10-ssn.htm#11

Jeff