tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 36

Physicians: Providers Could See End To PECOS Mess Soon

But provider reps frustrated by slow progress.The pace of the Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) couldn't get much slower - tens of thousands of providers are still waiting for enrollment or re-enrollment with Medicare.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and Medicare carriers are making slow progress in coping with the delayed enrollments, but CMS predicts things will be back to normal within 60 days. "Normal" doesn't mean no pending applications, because the carriers each receive hundreds or even thousands of applications per month.The number of pending enrollments was 72,595 in mid-August, down...

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