Hi Leslie

I received this too - yes, it's for real. I wondered the same but it  
looked pretty authentic and since it had a .gov address, I assumed it  
was. I then checked with my insurance broker and they confirmed other  
clients had received this recently too. I had to gather some  
additional information from my broker to help complete it, but I'm in  
the process of completing it now.

The slightly confusing part is that once you create a registration,  
you have to wait a couple of days before going back and having the  
survey be 'ready' for you to fill it out.

Then it will auto-populate with some of your staff (in my case, 1  
current staff member and 1 former). It doesn't seem to need info on  
all my staff but asks questions about whether the two individuals were  
employed in 2008, and a few other minor questions. It is a multi-part  
survey and luckily, you can complete part of it, save and come back to  
it (as you will need to do as you gather data). For instance, I had to  
gather the # of W2s or paid employees in each of 3 consecutive years  
(2008-10 I believe).

What I haven't been able to figure out is why it chose the two staff  
members it did to query me about. I am assuming it must be randomly  
generated, as neither of these individuals is of Medicare age.

As far as the url goes, you need to make sure you have an additional  
backslash after the word 'Match' and then it will work. I ran into  
this too as I think the additional backslash was on the following line  
in the letter and I didn't see it at first. You are also missing the  
'hhs' in the url which I believe was in the letter.

https://www.cob.cms.hhs.gov/DataMatch/

Fun government convoluted bureaucracy - yay!

Cheers
Jeff

Jeff Cabral
Library Director
McArthur Public Library
Box 346
Biddeford, ME 04005

(207) 284-4181

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Quoting "Leslie Rounds" <[log in to unmask]>:

> Hi,
>
> I have received a letter from a CMS Coordination of Benefits private
> government contractor regarding entering data online about employees who
> receive Medicare coverage. The site they list in the letter doesn't seem to
> work for me.: www.cob.cms.gov/DataMatch
>
> I contacted the contractor who referred me to their computer assistance
> place but no one answered the phone there. Have others received this? Is it
> for real? Have you been able to sign on to the web site?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Leslie
>
>
>
> Leslie Rounds
>
> Executive Director
>
> Dyer Library/Saco Museum
>
> 371 Main St.
>
> Saco, ME 04072
>
> 207-283-3861
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>