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Medicare Switches Enrollment, CHOW, COI Functions From Regional Offices To Contractors For HHAs
Published on Fri Jun 10, 2022
Home health agencies will deal more with Medicare contractors and less with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Regional Offices under new instructions. “CMS is ‘transitioning’ certain administrative functions involving certified provider/supplier enrollment transactions from the CMS Survey & Operations Group (SOG) Locations” — i.e., the ROs — “to the Medicare Administrative Contractors … and CMS’ Provider Enrollment & Oversight [...]