CMS Issues Proposed Rule To Implement Provider Enrollment Aspects Of Affordable Care Act
Published: November 4, 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published proposed regulations that would implement provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively, the “Affordable Care Act”) relating to provider enrollment in Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”). Published in the September 23, 2010 Federal Register, the proposed rules, if adopted, would introduce fingerprinting to the public-program enrollment process, expand provider-types subject to pre-enrollment and post-enrollment on-site agency review, specify details relating to the payment of fees for processing Medicare enrollment and revalidation applications, and provide new mechanisms for the establishment of Medicare and Medicaid enrollment moratoriums.