The publication of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), section 6405 - "Physicians Who Order Items or Services Required to be Medicare Enrolled Physicians or Eligible Professionals" (regulation CMS 6010-F), contains a requirement for certain physicians and non-physician practitioners to enroll in the Medicare program for the sole purpose of ordering or referring items or services for Medicare beneficiaries. The PPACA has an effective date applicable to written orders and certifications made on or after July 1, 2010. The CMS 855O allows a physician to receive a Medicare identification number (without being approved for billing privileges) for the sole purpose of ordering and referring Medicare beneficiaries to Medicare approved providers and suppliers. This new Medicare application form allows physicians who do not provide services to Medicare beneficiaries to be given a Medicare identification number without having to supply all the data required for the submission of Medicare claims. It also allows the Medicare program to identify ordering and referring physicians without having to validate the amount of data necessary to determine claims payment eligibility (such as banking information), while continuing to identify the physician's credentials as valid for ordering and referring purposes.
The burden increase is based the new burden amounts of data compiled from PECOS. The new estimates for completing the CMS-855O Medicare enrollment application form for initial enrollment, reporting changes in enrollment information, and voluntarily withdrawal of enrollment information are taken directly from the actual applications processed for calendar year 2014 in PECOS. These numbers are for estimated providers completing the CMS-855O solely for the purpose of ordering and/or referring Medicare beneficiaries to Medicare enrolled providers/suppliers. The new figures are from PECOS and therefore more accurate than the prior estimates. In addition, CMS assessed (via PECOS) how many providers are currently prescribing based on their NPI and PDE data but are not currently enrolled in PECOS and therefore will complete and submit the revised CMS-855O as new providers enrolling solely for the purpose of prescribing Part D drugs. Those assessed new providers were added to the burden estimates. Furthermore, according to the most recent wage data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for May 2014 (see http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#43-0000), the mean hourly wage for the general categories of "Office and Administrative Support Occupations" and "Physicians and Surgeons" and has greatly increased since the last revision of this form in 2012.
Overall the burden hours and costs have increased. Combined, the increase in burden hours is 219,475 and the increase in cost is $6,494,160. The increase in the number of respondents is 408,000 (from 40,000 to 448,000).
The burden has increased for two reasons. The first is we are using more accurate data from PECOS to estimate enrollees who use the CMS-855O to enroll in Medicare to solely to order and refer Medicare beneficiaries to Medicare enrolled providers and suppliers. By doing so, we have decreased the first part of our estimate by 12,000, from 40,000 respondents to 28,000. This means our burden cost is now $458,010 for these respondents. The second is we are now requiring providers who are prescribing Part D drugs to enroll as providers/suppliers. This increases the number of applications by 420,000 and increases our burden cost by $6,870,150. Combined, the changes are 243,600 hours and $7,328,160.
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On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
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(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
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Form CMS-855O Reporting Voluntary Withdrawal of Registration Information
CMS 855O - Supporting Statement 1517.docx
Reporting Voluntary Withdrawal of Registration Information