Clear Secure Inc. (NYSE:YOU) saw its stock rise 2.3% in premarket trading Tuesday after announcing a major contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The agreement will bring Clear’s identity-verification platform, CLEAR1, to Medicare.gov, enhancing how beneficiaries and providers create accounts, recover credentials, and access healthcare information starting in early 2026.
The upgrade is designed to strengthen fraud defenses and bolster security for the millions of Americans who rely on Medicare each year. CMS will phase out older identity-verification tools and replace them with Clear’s multi-layered authentication system—technology equipped to counter increasingly sophisticated threats such as AI-generated synthetic identities and deepfake impersonations.
The contract aligns with CMS’s national Health Tech Ecosystem initiative, announced earlier this year at the White House, which aims to create a more interoperable, digitally connected healthcare environment. By enabling a secure, reusable digital identity, CLEAR1 is expected to reduce friction for users while improving access to essential services.
Caryn Seidman Becker, Clear’s CEO, said, “CLEAR’s mission is to make experiences safer and easier by securely connecting people to their true identity. We have spent more than 15 years building public-private partnerships grounded in the belief that identity is foundational to trust.”
CLEAR1 is HIPAA-compliant and holds Full Service certification from the Kantara Initiative under NIST IAL2/AAL2 standards. The company already works with major healthcare organizations, including Epic, Sharecare, Welldoc, and health systems such as Wellstar Health and the University of Miami Health.