New “Common Access Card” Guards Against Identity Theft, Combats Medicare Waste, Fraud, and Abuse

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2015. U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and U.S. Representatives Peter Roskam (R-Ill.-06) and Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.-03) today introduced bipartisan legislation to protect seniors from identity theft and combat waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare system. The Medicare Common Access Card Act of 2015 (S. 1871/H.R. 3220) would update Medicare cards using chip technology similar to that…






