It's illegal. Seriously. They cannot use it for billing, identification, NOTHING. Medical insurance does NOT need SSN, you're not applying for a loan. Labs or anyone that bills insurance only need to identify your patient record- guess what, they assign you a patient record, it doesn't require ssn- and the billing codes. Anyplace your SSN is in the medical system is useless and a risk to you. We haven't had any SSN anywhere in medical, dental, insurance, no place at all, for over 20 years.
Physician’s have the SS# in office paperwork for medical insurance. I assume labs have access to medical records and insurance info. too for billing.
It's illegal. Seriously. They cannot use it for billing, identification, NOTHING. Medical insurance does NOT need SSN, you're not applying for a loan. Labs or anyone that bills insurance only need to identify your patient record- guess what, they assign you a patient record, it doesn't require ssn- and the billing codes. Anyplace your SSN is in the medical system is useless and a risk to you. We haven't had any SSN anywhere in medical, dental, insurance, no place at all, for over 20 years.