Datatypes

US Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI)

ID us_mbi

DatatypePersonal data (PII)identifierDraft

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Medicare Beneficiary Identifier, the 11-character number on the Medicare card that replaced the SSN-based number from 2018. Letters S, L, O, I, B and Z are not used. It is often written with hyphens after the 4th and 7th characters.

Categories
Personally identifiable information, Person related, Medical/pharma identifiers
Countries
United States
Languages
English
W3C DPV
pd:OfficialID
HL7 FHIR identifier system
http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-mbi
Microsoft Purview
Medicare Beneficiary Identifier (MBI) card
Quality
88/100 · missing: second example, translation
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
Amazon Macie, AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Azure AI Language PII detection, Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention, Nightfall AI

Regular expression

^[1-9][AC-HJKMNP-RT-Y][AC-HJKMNP-RT-Y0-9]\d-?[AC-HJKMNP-RT-Y][AC-HJKMNP-RT-Y0-9]\d-?[AC-HJKMNP-RT-Y]{2}\d{2}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
1EG4-TE5-MK73Format example published by CMS
1EG4-TE5-MK7S invalidThe letter S is not used

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