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continued enrollment to an individual with a serious tax
delinquency.
We maintain that it is essential that a physician or
NPP resolve any existing Federal tax delinquency before
entering the Medicare program. This will ensure that the
Medicare program is not making payments to an individual
who has not met his or her obligation to pay their tax
debts.
Finally, we solicited comments on whether we should
consider revoking a physician’s billing privileges or
taking some other type of administrative action when a
physician or NPP has a Federal tax delinquency that can not
be levied through the FPLP process. We also solicited
comments on whether we should consider revoking the billing
privileges of an organizational entity or taking some other
type of administrative action against organizational
entities when the owners of an organizational entity have a
Federal tax delinquency that can not be levied through the
FPLP process.
Comment: One commenter recommends an alternative to
payment denial where an individual with a tax delinquency
has reassigned their benefits to a group. The commenter
suggested that the government garnish a portion of the
individual practitioner’s salary directly, as appropriate.
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