Provider Enrollment Regulation

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On February 2, 2011, we published a final rule with comment titled, "Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health insurance Programs (CHIP); Additional Screening Requirements, Application Fees, Temporary Enrollment Moratoria, Payment Suspensions and Compliance Plans for Providers and Suppliers" in the Federal Register. This final rule with comment period will implement provisions of the ACA that establish procedures under which screening is conducted for providers of medical or other services and suppliers in the Medicare program, Medicaid program and CHIP. 

On August 27, 2010, we published a final rule titled, "Medicare Program; establishing Additional Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) Supplier Enrollment Safeguards" (CMS-6036-F) in the Federal Register. This final rule clarifies and expands on the existing enrollment requirements that DMEPOS suppliers must meet to establish and maintain billing privileges in the Medicare program. 

On May 5, 2010, we published an interim final rule with comment titled, "Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Changes in Provider and Supplier Enrollment, Ordering and Referring, and Documentation Requirements; and Changes in Provider Agreements” in the Federal Register. This IFC will implement several of the requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) (Pub. L. 111-148) designed to support the Administration's efforts to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and to ensure quality care for beneficiaries.

On January 2, 2009, we published a final rule titled, “Medicare Program; Surety Bond Requirement for Suppliers of Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS); Final Rule.” Consistent with section 4312(a) of the BBA, this final rule implemented section 1834(a)(16) of the Act by requiring certain Medicare suppliers of DMEPOS to furnish CMS with a surety bond of no less than $50,000.

On November 19, 2008, we published a final rule with comment titled, “Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule and Other Revisions to Part B for CY 2009; E-Prescribing Exemption for Computer Generated Facsimile Transmissions; and Payment for Certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS).” In part, this final rule with comment period established a number of provider enrollment provisions affecting physicians, non-physician practitioners, and other providers and suppliers, such as the re-enrollment bar of 1 to 3 years on revoked providers and suppliers, as well as the limitation on retroactive billing by providers and suppliers.

On June 27, 2008, we published a final rule titled, “Appeals of CMS or CMS Contractor Determinations When a Provider or Supplier Fails to Meet the Requirements for Medicare Billing Privileges.” This final rule implemented section 936 of the MMA and extended appeal rights to all providers and suppliers, including DMEPOS suppliers, whose enrollment applications for Medicare billing privileges are denied or revoked by CMS or a Medicare contractor (that is, carrier, fiscal intermediary, National Supplier Clearinghouse Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC),or Part A/Part B MAC). This final rule also allowed providers and suppliers to seek judicial review after they have exhausted the administrative appeals process. In addition, this final rule also implemented provider enrollment provisions that apply to all provider and supplier types.

On November 27, 2007, we published a final rule titled, “Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Other Part B Payment Policies for CY 2008; Revisions to the Payment Policies of Ambulance Services Under the Ambulance Fee Schedule for CY 2008; and the Amendment of the E-Prescribing Exemption for Computer Generated Facsimile Transmissions; Final Rule.” In this final rule, we clarified our interpretation of several of the existing independent diagnostic testing facility (IDTF) performance standards found at §410.33(b) and §410.33(g), proposed a new IDTF performance standard at §410.33(g)(15), and a new proposed IDTF provision at §410.33(i).

In the December 1, 2006,(71 FR 69624), we published a final rule titled, “Medicare Program; Revisions to Payment Policies, Five-Year Review of Work Relative Value Units, Changes to the Practice Expense Methodology Under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Other Changes to Payment Under Part B; Revisions to the Payment Policies of Ambulance Services Under the Fee Schedule for Ambulance Services; and Ambulance Inflation Factor Update for CY 2007.” In part, this final rule with comment established performance standards for independent diagnostic testing facilities.

On April 21, 2006,we published the Requirements for Providers and Suppliers to Establish and Maintain Medicare Enrollment final rule that implemented section 1866(j)(1)(A) of the Act. In this final rule, we required that all providers and suppliers (other than physicians or non-practitioners who have elected to “opt-out” of the Medicare program) complete an enrollment application and submit specific information to CMS in order to obtain Medicare billing privileges. This final rule also required that all providers and suppliers must periodically update and certify the accuracy of their enrollment information to receive and maintain billing privileges in the Medicare program. These regulatory provisions include requirements to protect beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust Fund by preventing unqualified, fraudulent, or excluded providers and suppliers from providing items or services to Medicare beneficiaries or from billing the Medicare program or its beneficiaries.

On October 11, 2000, we published the Additional Supplier Standards final rule with comment period where we listed the number of suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS). In this rule, we established additional standards with which a DMEPOS supplier must comply in order to receive and maintain Medicare billing privileges. This final rule with comment period outlined the supplier requirements to ensure that suppliers of DMEPOS are qualified to furnish DMEPOS and to help safeguard the Medicare program and its beneficiaries from fraudulent or abusive billing practices.