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CMS Re-Enables IACS Registration As Transition To EIDM Stalls
If you’ve been wrestling with access to your PS&R data due to the IACS-to-EIDM transition, you can get some relief.
“Due to on-going troubleshooting with the transition, CMS is re-enabling IACS registration functionality for PS&R and STAR users as of April 15th, 2015,” HHH Medicare Administrative Con-tractor CGS says on its website. “Users with existing IACS accounts will remain unaffected, and may continue using IACS, PS&R, and STAR, as they have been since the transition began 2 months ago.”
Agencies unable to register “during this period may resume organization and account registration activities via the same IACS pages in use thus far: https://idm.cms.hhs.gov/idm/user/newregistration.jsp[idm.cms.hhs.gov],” CGS instructs.
Stay tuned: CGS will prove an update “when the EIDM transition resumes,” it says
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