Determine if Medicare is Primary or Secondary for a Beneficiary's Services

Table of Contents Determine if Medicare is Primary or Secondary for a Beneficiary's Services Step 1: Collect MSP Information from the Beneficiary During an MSP Screening Process Step 2: Check for Open MSP Records for a Beneficiary in [...]

Fundamentals of Medicare

Track the Status of Your Application

How to Search You may track the status of your provider enrollment application (PECOS or paper) submissions via the: Check Provider Enrollment Application Status tool by: Case number/web tracker id or NPI and TIN combination [...]

Provider Enrollment Application Process Timeline

All MACs, including National Governments Services, have a goal to finalize an Internet-based PECOS application within 15 days and a CMS-855 paper application within 30 days, if all required information is available. About the Application [...]

PECOS Application Status Tool

The status of your application is indicated by the step that is highlighted. If an application fee is required, an additional step will be added and the system will generate five steps. Your application was successfully [...]

Identify the Proper Order of Payers for a Beneficiary's Services

Table of Contents Background Step 1: Check for Open Medicare Secondary Payer Records for the Beneficiary in the Common Working File Step 2: Collect MSP Information from the Beneficiary  Step 3: Compare the MSP Information you [...]

Checking Eligibility and Knowing Your Point of Contact

Checking Eligibility and Knowing your Point of Contact Table of Contents Checking Eligibility and Knowing your Point of Contact How to Verify Patient Eligibility Related Content Listed below are the different patient eligibility and [...]

Go Paperless Today - Protect Your Bottom Line

Go Paperless Today ‒ Protect Your Bottom Line Every day is a great day to choose electronic solutions rather than paper. Make today the day you go electronic. If you are sending paper to National Government Services, change that now. You can [...]