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CLEAR Announces Contract with CMS to Power Secure, Seamless Digital Identity for Medicare.gov
Contract enables integration of CLEAR1 to modernize account creation and recovery for Medicare beneficiaries and providers, strengthen fraud prevention, and advance the connected digital health ecosystemNEW YORK, Dec. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- CLEAR (NYSE: YOU), the secure identity company, today announced it has entered into a contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the single largest payer for health care services in the United States, to support modernization of i
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