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Originally Posted by kcmay
What drives me crazy most of all is being asked to provide my SSN to doctors' offices. I'm not applying for credit, and they bill my insurance directly. They don't need my SSN.
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I also worked in health insurance enrollment until my son was born July 2009and now I am home with him. Shortly before I left the company it had become Medicare policy that any insurance company with members over a certain age had to provide SSN's to Medicare for those members or face fines. Of course there was ramp-up time, etc for the program, but another example of the government sticking its nose into business and causing pain & misery all around. Previously the spot was there because it makes for a unique identifier and helped prevent duplication of applications in the database, but no harm no foul if it was left blank.