Home Health & Hospice Week

Industry Notes:

Medicare Switches Enrollment, CHOW, COI Functions From Regional Offices To Contractors For HHAs

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 [...]
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