tci Part B Insider - 2011 Issue 11

Physician Notes: Follow '180-Day Rule' to Keep Your Medicare IACS Account Active

Plus: One carrier denies 75 percent of long-stay hospice claims.The transition from paper Medicare registration to electronic enrollment has not been entirely seamless, but once you've got an enrollment record in PECOS and you register in the IACS system, you may think your work is done. Think again.To access certain types of online data about your practice, including your Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) reports, you'll require an IACS (Individuals Authorized Access to the CMS Computer Services) account. And then once you're registered in IACS, you'll need to log back in every 180 days or more often...

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