[11/07/11]
                      Posted on November 7, 2011                                                  in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice                                              
                                                                        
                            Written by: Bufford, David W.
                          
                                              
                      
                        
                          The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has reevaluated the revalidation requirements in the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), and believe the ACA allows for the extension of the revalidation period for an additional two years.  This will extend the deadline for revalidation through March of 2015.  Providers are reminded that if they have...                          READ MORE
                        
                       
                      Tags:  855, ACA, bufford, categories, cms, extend, extension, Home Health, Hospice, jent, Litigation and Risk Management, long term care, Medicaid/Medicare Enrollment and Regulatory Compliance, provider, revalidation, risk, screening, selby, supplier
                    
                                      
                      
                      [08/10/11]
                      Posted on August 10, 2011                                                  in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice                                              
                                                                        
                            Written by: Bufford, David W.
                          
                                              
                      
                        
                          As of March 2011, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented new screening criteria in the Medicare provider/supplier enrollment process.  Newly enrolling and revalidating providers and suppliers are placed in one of three categories – limited, moderate, or high – each representing the level of risk to the Medicare program for that...                          READ MORE
                        
                       
                      Tags:  60 day, 6401a, ACA, accountable care, application, billing, bufford, categories, centers for medicare & medicaid, centers for medicare and medicaid, cms, deactivation, enrollment, fee, high, Home Health, Hospice, jent, limited, long term care, MAC, march, march 25, Medicaid/Medicare Enrollment and Regulatory Compliance, Medicare, medicare administrative contractor, moderate, pay.gov, pecos, process, provider, revalidation, risk, screening, selby, supplier