Shawnee Mission Medical Center--KS

Document ID: CMS-2010-0187-0015
Document Type: Public Submission
Agency: Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services
Received Date: May 28 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Date Posted: August 11 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Start Date: May 5 2010, at 12:00 AM Eastern Standard Time
Comment Due Date: July 6 2010, at 11:59 PM Eastern Standard Time
Tracking Number: 80af5e15
View Document:

This is comment on Rule

Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Changes in Provider and Supplier Enrollment, Ordering and Referring, and Documentation Requirements, etc.

View Comment

The provisions of this new legislation are onerous and without enough implementation time. Why create another physician/provider database when we already have NPI. At the very least, if PECOS is necessary, we need time to determine if our ordering physicians are enrolled and if not, to get them enrolled. We operate a needed community service with our Home Health Services and I would hate to not serve an elderly person in their home because their physician is not enrolled in PECOS or worse yet, have CMS encounter the cost of SNF care because Home Health is unable to care for the patient due to physician not being enrolled in PECOS.