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CMS-1403-FC
a Medicare enrollment application and the necessary
supporting documentation prior to our formal request for
revalidation. Accordingly, providers and suppliers who
choose not to come into voluntary compliance or fail to
respond to a revalidation request in a complete and timely
manner fail to satisfy our enrollment criteria and may be
subject to revocation of their billing privileges.”
Accordingly, we do not believe that these policies are
inconsistent. We continue to encourage all physicians,
providers, and suppliers to update their enrollment records
when a reportable change occurs, and absent a reportable
change we encourage all physicians, providers, and
suppliers who have not updated their enrollment record
within the last 5 years to do so in advance of contractor’s
revalidation request. Once we initiate revalidation
efforts, physicians and other providers and suppliers will
only be provided 60 days to respond to a contractor’s
request.
Comment: One commenter stated that we should monitor,
track, and make publicly available the average length of
time from submission of an enrollment application for new
procedures to the time the Medicare contractors actually
process and notify the providers of acceptance of that
enrollment application.
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