ENROLLMENT FORMS:
3 Mistakes Could Derail Your Medicare Enrollment
Published on Wed Jun 10, 2009
Watch your timing: New transmittal indicates that CMS will immediately return your application if you apply too early. As if the new Medicare enrollment process wasn't confusing enough, CMS has revised its written rules on submitting your CMS-855 enrollment application. According to new transmittal 292, dated June 12, CMS lists over a dozen mistakes that providers might make that would cause their carrier to immediately return their enrollment application. Most of the reasons, including an unsigned CMS-855 or a stamped signature on the form, are old news to practices who already knew not to make these errors. However, CMS now adds three parameters to the rule, reminding the medical community not to send in their CMS-855 forms too early, notes Barbara J. Cobuzzi,MBA, CPC,CPC-H, CPC-P, CENTC, CHCC, president of CRN Healthcare Solutions in Tinton Falls, N.J. CMS will now immediately return an application that meets the following criteria, the transmittal [...]