Medicare Delays Provider Enrollment Revalidation Until 2015 October 31, 2011 Medicare, News Medicare provider revalidation, revalidate Medicare provider 3 The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) has delayed the requirement that physicians revalidate their Medicare enrollment under the program integrity screening provisions of the Affordable Care Act. According to CMS, the revalidation effort, originally scheduled for March 23, 2013, will be pushed back through 2015. Physicians will be among the last to revalidate. Physicians who have already received revalidation notifications from Palmetto GBA should fill out the form and return it to Palmetto per the instructions in the notice. The revalidation requirement is necessitated by new screening criteria that were implemented this past March. Newly enrolling and revalidating providers will be placed in one of three screening categories representing the level of risk to the Medicare program. The level of risk will determine the degree of screening to be performed when processing the enrollment application. Do not do anything until you get a letter instructing you to revalidate. (This is very important to ensure an orderly enrollment process.) Physicians who are making changes (moving, closing practice, etc.) should continue to submit their changes as usual. Comments are closed.
