JUST RELEASED - How to Protect Your Identity Using the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS)
Updates from the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) If you are enrolled, or plan to enroll in Medicare, it is important that you protect your Medicare identity from getting into the hands of dishonest and unscrupulous people - personal identity thieves and those intending to commit fraud in the Medicare Program. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed "How to Protect Your Identity Using the Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS)" as the next in a series of Medicare enrollment fact sheets. This fact sheet provides step-by-step instructions to help Fee-For-Service (FFS) providers protect their identity in Internet-based PECOS and is available in downloadable format at http://www.cms.gov/MLNProducts/downloads/MedEnroll_ProtID_FactSheet_ICN9 05103.pdf on the CMS website. Stay tuned for updates from the Medicare Learning Network (MLN) as future installments of fact sheets designed to educate FFS providers about important Medicare enrollment information are released! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Note: If you have problems accessing any hyperlink in this message, please copy and paste the URL into your Internet browser. If you received this message as part of the All FFS Providers listserv, you are currently subscribed to one of eighteen Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) provider listservs. If you would like to be removed from all NIH listservs, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm <https://list.nih.gov/LISTSERV_WEB/signoff.htm> ) to unsubscribe. If you would like to unsubscribe from a specific provider listserv, please go to (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives <https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/show_list_archives> ) to unsubscribe or to leave the appropriate listserv. If you know someone who would like to subscribe to a FFS provider listserv, go to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/prospmedicarefeesvcpmtgen/downloads/Provider_Lis tservs.pdf) . Please DO NOT respond to this email. This email is a service of CMS and routed through an electronic mail server to communicate Medicare policy and operational changes and/or updates. Responses to this email are not routed to CMS personnel. Inquiries may be sent by going to (http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS <http://www.cms.hhs.gov/ContactCMS> ). Thank you.
