Home Health & Hospice Week

Tip: Failing to send in your CHOW information ASAP could haunt you. CMS and its contractors are ramping up the effort to revalidate providers' Medicare enrollment. Home health agencies need to wait until they receive a revalidation request before submitting their update, HHH Medicare Administrative Con-tractor Palmetto GBA says in a question-and-an-swer set on its website. But they should not wait to submit updates to their Medicare information, such as change in ownership (CHOW) info. Plus: HHAs won't have to undergo another survey or submit capitalization documentation with the revalidation, Palmetto clarifies in the Q&As. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants you to use the Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System to submit your revalidation information, it says in a message to pro-viders. "We have already streamlined the application process with fewer screens and new helpful prompts to let you know if information is incomplete," the agency says. [...]