Industry Note:
CMS Adds Requirements Before HHAs Are Certified
Published on Wed Sep 14, 2011
Newly enrolling providers will have a few more hoops to jump through before obtaining Medicare certification, CMS indicates in a new transmittal. After a home health agency passes its state survey, the enrollment application will go back to the HHA's Medicare contractor for a "post regional office" period. The MAC will then verify that the HHA still meets minimal capitalization requirements, and will "review each entity and individual listed in sections 2, 5 and 6 of the HHA's CMS- 855A application against the Medicare Exclusion Database (MED) (or the [HHS] Office of Inspector General's (OIG) List of Excluded Individuals and Entities) and the General Services Administration Excluded Parties List System (GSA List)," CMS directs in Sept. 16 Transmittal No. 388 (CR 7525). The CR is at
www.cms.gov/transmittals/downloads/R388PI.pdf.