At Special Open Door Forum May 19, CMS to Respond to Problems Identified Re: Physician Enrollment Verification

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), physicians and non-physician practitioners who order durable medical equipment (DME) items and physicians who order home health services must be enrolled in or have officially opted out of Medicare. The National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) recently reported on the Centers for Medicare &…