Bill Popomaronis, R.Ph., NCPA vice president, home health and long term care pharmacy services, provides his thoughts and explanations on the latest DME information from CMS.




Friday, November 30, 2007

CMS Begins DMEPOS Fraud Demonstration Project – Are You a Targeted Supplier?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) instructed the National Supplier Clearinghouse (NSC) to begin the DMEPOS demonstration project on November 1. This demonstration project involves all DMEPOS suppliers located in the following counties:

South Florida – Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach

Southern California – Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino

Each DMEPOS supplier in the demonstration locales is required to submit a CMS 855S Medicare enrollment application to the NSC within 30 days after the NSC requests such data.

For mdditional information, visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicareProviderSupEnroll