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to participate in the Medicare program. Surveyed suppliers
are those suppliers who have been certified by either CMS
or a State certification agency and are in compliance with
Medicare requirements. Surveyed suppliers may include ASCs
or portable x-ray suppliers; and
● Ensures that we are able to verify a supplier’s
qualifications, including meeting any performance
standards before payment for services can occur.
The second approach would establish the initial
enrollment date for physician and NPP organizations and
individual practitioners, including physician and NPPs, as
the later of: (1) the date of filing of a Medicare
enrollment application that was subsequently approved by a
fee-for-service (FFS) contractor; or (2) the date an
enrolled supplier first started furnishing services at a
new practice location. The date of filing the enrollment
application is the date that the Medicare FFS contractor
receives a signed Medicare enrollment application that the
Medicare FFS contractor is able to process to approval.
This option would allow a supplier that is already seeing
non-Medicare patients to start billing for Medicare
patients beginning on the day they submit an enrollment
application that can be fully processed. In contrast to
the first option, newly enrolling physicians and NPP
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