Home Health & Hospice Week
Schedule Around PECOS 'Dark Days'
Published on Tue Aug 24, 2010
You'd better reschedule any PECOSrelated work you have planned for this week. The Internet-based Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS) will be unavailable from Wed. Sept. 29 through Sun. Oct. 3, CMS says in a message to providers. The "dark days" are due to scheduled maintenance.
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Home Health & Hospice Week
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MedPAC Sets Sights On Home Care -- Again
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