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On April 23, 2026, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), sent letters to all governors and State Medicaid Directors requesting that the states do the following:

1.  Within 10 days, provide to CMS a timeline for swift revalidation of high-risk providers.  High risk providers include newly-enrolling home health agencies and durable medical equipment suppliers, as well as providers that have a history of certain fraud and abuse determinations or are in a category that has recently been the subject of a provider enrollment moratorium.  Dr. Oz also indicated that states must designate that any provider without a national provider identifier as “high risk”; and
2. Within 30 days, submit a comprehensive two-year provider revalidation strategy for off-cycle provider revalidations with a focus on high-risk providers. 

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently announced new healthcare fraud measures that include the imposition of a six-month moratorium on provider enrollments of new durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (“DMEPOS”) suppliers. This means that new DMEPOS suppliers will not be able to enroll for the first time in the Medicare program until the moratorium terminates. The moratorium became effective February 27, 2026. 

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