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Institutional Providers See $17 Increase for Medicare Enrollment Fee in 2019

Published on Wed Nov 21, 2018

If you thought $569 was a hefty application fee for Medicare enrollment for institutional providers in CY 2018, get ready for another shock. CMS raised the cost to $586 for CY 2019. “Using [Bureau of Labor Statistics] BLS data, the [Consumer Price Index for Urban Areas] CPI-U increase for the period of July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018 was 2.9 percent,” said the [...]
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