CLEAR has signed a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to bring its digital identity platform to Medicare.gov beginning in early 2026.
Here are three things to know about the partnership:
- Under the agreement, Medicare.gov will integrate CLEAR1, the company’s secure identity technology, to support account creation, account recovery and access to healthcare information for Medicare beneficiaries and providers.
- CMS is pursuing the update as part of a broader effort to strengthen fraud prevention and streamline digital access, according to a Dec. 9 news release.
- CLEAR said the platform is designed to address increasingly sophisticated identity threats, including synthetic identities, deepfake impersonation and fraud attempts using publicly available personal data. The company said CLEAR1 replaces legacy verification checks with multi-layered authentication intended to reduce identity-related fraud and protect sensitive information.
The work aligns with priorities laid out in CMS’ Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, announced July 30 at the White House. That initiative aims to build a more connected and interoperable digital health environment and advance the agency’s long-term goal of eliminating manual, paper-based processes.
