BC Advantage - 2009 Issue 7

Stay on top of Medicare provider enrollment

Achieving recognition as an eligible provider for Medicare used to be a fairly intensive and laborious process. And because the process of attaining billing privileges depended on the proverbially slow snail mail system, the length of time it took to become eligible seemed even longer. However, with the welcome establishment of the Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), providers have the option of enrolling, making a change to their information, or tracking the status of their application using a far more efficient Internet submission process.There are other notable processes in the Medicare provider enrollment system of...

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