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with billing agents, clearinghouses, academic medical
institutions, or staff within their practice.
Physicians and NPPs choosing to use billing agents,
clearinghouses, academic medical institutions, etc. will be
required to submit a paper enrollment application to enroll
or make a change in their Medicare enrollment record.
In order to use Internet-based PECOS to enroll or make a
change in an organizational enrollment record, we will
verify that the authorized official associated with the
Medicare enrollment record is employed by the organization
and is authorized by the organization to submit or make
changes to the organization enrollment record.
Over the last 2 years, we have stressed the importance
of filing a complete application at the time of filing or
in response to a contractor’s request for additional
information. However, Medicare contractors continue to
report that a significant number of applications are
incomplete at the time of filing or that applicants do not
respond timely and completely to a contractor’s request for
additional information.
Finally, in the April 21, 2006 final rule, physicians,
NPPs, and physician and NPP organizations learned about our
intent to begin a revalidation process.
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