Home Health & Hospice Week

Home care providers have won a little breathing room on their Medicare revalidations -- but only if they're enrolled in PECOS. CMS "has reevaluated the revalidation requirement in the Affordable Care Act, and believe[s] it affords the flexibility to extend the revalidation period for another 2 years," the agency says in an e-mail message to providers. "Revalidation notices will now be sent through March of 2015" instead of March 2013. That means providers that haven't yet received revalidation requests may not see them for years. But if you've already received a revalidation notice, you need to respond to it, CMS stresses. If you aren't enrolled in PECOS, you are on the list for providers who have already received notices, CMS notes. The notices were sent to your special payments and primary practice addresses. Do this: "If you believe you are not in PECOS and have not yet received a revalidation letter, [...]