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WASHINGTON -- Medicare plans to revise its proposed enrollment form to make it more user friendly for physicians, Robert Loyal said at a meeting of the Medicare Practicing Physicians Advisory Council.
"Some of the language in the form could be softened," explained Mr. Loyal who is director of the division of provider and supplier enrollment at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Baltimore.
Earlier this year, CMS issued a proposed rule to simplify the enrollment policy for health providers and suppliers, and to raise the bar on qualifications. A primary goal was to weed out the "bad actors" with criminal backgrounds who "could trip off the Medicare trust funds," Jack Emery, assistant director of...
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