The application fee for providers to enroll in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program has been set for calendar year 2012. The fee has increased to $523 from $505.
The fee applies to those enrolling in Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP for the first time as well as those revalidating their enrollment or who are adding a new Medicare practice location. The new fee is in effect between Jan. 1, 2012 and Dec. 31, 2012. The $505 fee still applies to applications submitted on or before Dec. 31, 2011.
In the notice published in the Federal Register about the fee, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services noted that the fee is not required for Medicare doctors or non-physician practitioners who submit at CMS-8551 or for first-time or re-enrolling applicants of Medicaid or CHIP who are individual physicians or non-physician practitioners or who have enrolled in Title XVIII or another state’s Title XIX or XXI plan and has paid the application fee to a Medicare contractor or to another state.
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