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Pecos registration by referring
physicians will probably prevent
economic denial of medicare
claims for any service requiring a
referral. Suppose you are a
radiologist and wish
to earn a living. Or perhaps you
are a hospital administrator and
wish to not show a
loss of cash flow for the hospital.
If a physician is not registered in
Pecos or does not
have Pecos registration, then any
referrals by that physician for
medicare beneficiaries
will probably not be paid for by
medicare sometime begining
approx. Jan 3 2011.

Please do not make the same
mistake I made. I registered for a
medicare PTAN number in New
Jersey and had no problem
whatsoever getting into the
PECOS system for New Jersey. My
secret is that I avoided the online
computer system and submitted
a printed form. If you call
medicare enrollment and ask
them how many problems
providers were having with
electronic enrollment in PECOS vs
sending in a printed form why not
ask this direct question: How
many online electronic PECOS
applications were clean
applications? That is how many
applications went through
electronically online without the
need for Medicare to request
additional information
because material or data was left
out? Please understand that
when I filled out the electronic
version of the application and
printed this out the certification
page on this printed out form was
the wrong certification page. I
needed to print out a different
certification page. Now if I printed
out the PECOS application and
mailed it in, that certification
page on the printed out
application that gets mailed in I
believe was the correct
certification page. This is
probably why I had no problem
when I avoided registring in New
Jersey by avoiding the electronic
application entirely. If you
ask Medicare if you can mail in a
printed application to obtain
PECOS registration and they say
yes why not just mail it.

DISCLAIMER: Do not rely on any of the
information on this website. This website only
contains the personal opinions of Dr. Chaskin
Podiatrist. Please only rely upon the valid
information given by Medicare.
Please consider the advantages of mailing the
PECOS registration application.
disclaimer: Do not rely on any of the above
information but instead call medicare directly
and ask them if it is possible to mail in a
printed application and how to go about doing
so. Also check with Medicare as to the accuracy
of any of the information posted on this
website.

What makes more sense? To send in
an electronic PECOS application
online and then to seperately mail in
a signed certification statement and
hope this is the corret certification
statement and not the wrong
outdated certification statement. If
you choose to do this online and
print out what you submitted online,
I personally would not sign the
statement on what was printed out
but call medicare and ask for
explicit instructions on how to obtain
the correct certification statement
that needs to be mailed in. Then I
would hope that the certification
statement would be matched with
the online appliction. If you are a
physician in New York isn't it a
whole lot easier and better for you
to insist on not sending in a PECOS
application online but to mail in the
entire application as a whole and
calling medicare at 866 837-0241
and insisting on having that entire
application faxed to you so you can
fill it out and mail it back to
Medicare? You also can call NGS
medicare and ask for instructions
how to get the 3 forms needed.
Call the telephone number and be
sure to ask how to print out the
following 3 forms if you are an
individual physician:

CMS 855i

CMS 588

and

CMS 460

and all supporting documents need
to be mailed in that are required.
Once you get the 3 above forms I
suggest that you read them
carefully.

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63-48 Forest Avenue
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(718) 417-4895
Please understand that there are
podiatrists out there that do house
calls if a patient has difficulty
traveling.

This is a stressful time for many
physicians. I believe humor is a great
way to deal with the stress. Therefore
I wrote some humerous music
whereby a physician can laugh and be
placed in a good mood while applying
for the PECOS registration. Please
understand that this music is
copyrighted and not to be
downloaded or shared or broadcast. It
is solely for the enjoyment of the
reader while reading the information
on this website. Please do not
download or save the video on your
computer.

What is better,
Choice A- electronically filling
out an application that needs to
be matched with a signed
certification statement and you
have to be concerned you sign
the correct certification
statement, or
Choice B- printing out the entire
application and all supporting
documents and mailing it and
having everything sent in
together? Why not ask Medicare
if 1000 applications went in with
the procedure of choice A and
1000 applications went in with
the procedure of choice B how
many of those applications were
approved without any errors out
of those 1000 when you compare
choice A vs choice B.