Medicare Provider Supplier Enrollment Form

Instructions and help about Medicare Provider Supplier Enrollment

[Music] hello everyone my name is tom ryan with wps provider outreach and education today we're going to hear about the importance of provider enrollment to the medicare program the provider enrollment area is assigned the task of making sure providers are legally eligible to receive medicare payment provider enrollment's job is to screen providers to avoid fraudulent billing ensure anyone asking for payment meets the federal law requirements and makes sure providers meet license or certification criteria the medicare administrative contractor or max enrollment staff completes enrollment for individual physicians and non-physician practitioners suppliers such as labs or ambulance companies and facilities such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities medicare allows enrollment two ways electronically or on paper and we process both applications internet based provider enrollment chain and ownership system or picos completes the electronic enrollment process this system has built-in ed