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Heads up: Medicare is unpausing some Medicare enrollment-related duties.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “will resume some provider enrollment activities that were paused during the COVID-19 public health emergency,” CMS says in a message to providers. That includes revalidation, application fees, and fingerprint-based criminal background checks.

How it will work: “CMS will be resuming … revalidation activities in a phased approach for existing providers and suppliers that missed their revalidation due date during the PHE,” CMS explains in a recently issued frequently asked question set on enrollment relief. “Revalidation letters will be sent in October 2021 with due dates in early 2022.”

There are exceptions to all of these requirement resumptions for providers that received temporary billing privileges through the Medicare enrollment hotlines, CMS notes in the FAQs at www.cms.gov/files/document/provider-enrollment-relief-faqs-covid-19.pdf.