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Update Your PECOS File Now to Ensure Payment Later

Published on Mon Feb 22, 2010

Hint: You'll need the system's electronic funds transfers in order to get paid. If your physicians are not enrolled in Medicare's Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS), you stand to lose out big time on reimbursement opportunities. Even though the deadline to enroll or update was extended to January 2011, you can't afford to put off enrollment. We'll show you how to take advantage of the extra time to get organized and get in the system. Don't Assume Your Practice is PECOS-Exempt Enrolling your physicians and non-physician practitioners in PECOS is essential if you want to get paid by Medicare for covered services, says Cyndee Weston,executive director of the American Medical Billing Association in Sulpher, Okla. There are other reasons which would require your practice to enroll. For example, if your provider orders or refers services and supplies, he must be enrolled in the system. Important: If you bill [...]
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