Error in Medicare database exposes US healthcare providers Social Security numbers – Trump administration directory designed to modernize Medicare encounters another setback

Healthcare.

• Social Security numbers have been exposed in a public database
• The database was used to populate a Medicare directory
• The directory was launched by CMS as part of Trump administration plans to modernize Medicare

A directory created by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has exposed the Social Security numbers of a number of US healthcare providers.