Yeah I was thinking about that this morning - I notice my new one doesn't have the strip on the back either. If you were to scan the card into an image file I suppose there is some type of OCR activex you could get to try to read the data off the image file but it seems like it would be a real pain in the neck to put together unless there was just a handfull of different card layouts.

>Not all insurance cards have a magnetic strip on the back. In fact, my experience has shown most don't. My doctor's office has a machine that scans the card into an image file.
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>>All you're really trying to do is read the magnetic strip on the back right?