CMS has extended the Medicare revalidation deadline for providers and suppliers until 2015, according to an American Medical News report.
The change will give CMS more time as it attempts to revalidate the enrollment of more than 750,000 physicians. The latest change will ease the re-enrollment process, according to the agency. Prior to the change, the Medicare agency had planned to re-enroll 1.4 million physicians, non-physician practitioners and other healthcare providers by March 2013.
The American Medical Association asked CMS to push back the deadline in September. The AMA and other organizations said Medicare contractors would find it difficult to revalidate 1.4 million enrollment records within an 18 month window, especially considering contractors already process approximately 27,000 new enrollments and more than 30,000 billing reassignments each month.
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The change will give CMS more time as it attempts to revalidate the enrollment of more than 750,000 physicians. The latest change will ease the re-enrollment process, according to the agency. Prior to the change, the Medicare agency had planned to re-enroll 1.4 million physicians, non-physician practitioners and other healthcare providers by March 2013.
The American Medical Association asked CMS to push back the deadline in September. The AMA and other organizations said Medicare contractors would find it difficult to revalidate 1.4 million enrollment records within an 18 month window, especially considering contractors already process approximately 27,000 new enrollments and more than 30,000 billing reassignments each month.
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