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Medicare has resumed its “regular revalidation cycles” after its campaign to have providers revalidate under its beefed up enrolment criteria. Even if you made it through the revalidation revamp, you need to pay attention to subsequent revalidation requests or risk your Medicare billing status.

Do this: Check your revalidation due date at http://go.cms.gov/MedicareRevalidation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in an MLN Matters article on the revalidation resumption. “If the provider/supplier has a due date listed, CMS encourages you to submit your revalidation within six months of your due date or when you receive notification from your MAC to revalidate,” according to the article.

Watch out: Your referral sources may miss out on their revalidation if they’re not careful. “The list identifies billing providers/suppliers only that are required to revalidate,” CMS stresses. “If you are enrolled solely to order, certify, and/or prescribe via the CMS-855O application or have opted out of Medicare, you will not be asked to revalidate and will not be reflected on the list.”

See more details about the process at www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNMattersArticles/Downloads/SE1605.pdf.