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by karma_pharmer 750 days ago
Actually you can. Just don't give them your SSN. I did this with Kaiser Permanente and it continues to work just fine.
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> They contacted my insurance and the insurance sent them my SSN

If all you're doing is making them get the information from someone else, what exactly are you accomplishing? Adding a bit of friction to a process?

I mean, fine, if that's the aim, but it sounds like this was intended as more of a “they don't need this information at all, and if you don't give it to them, then they won't have it” technique, and (apparently) that doesn't work.

I told them they shouldn't give the insurance company their SSN.

There is no "someone else" who will give the insurer this information.