HomecareNet PECOS tracking

July 15, 2010 by Pete Tanguay
Filed under CPR+ & Mediware Customers

One of the great things about HomecareNet is that it is so robust. Sometimes viewed as complicated, it all pays off when you need to respond to business / industry changes. It’s great for the Mediware development staff too since they don’t have to constantly release “little fixes” with special instructions so the system will handle new, unforseen requirements.

The word of the moment is PECOS, the CMS physician registration process that everyone is scrambling to make sure their referring physicians have completed so they can get paid from Medicare. As a home infusion provider you need to do three things:

Identify the physicians you work with that are not registered.
Change your intake process to verify that the physician is registered with PECOS.
Contact physicians that are not registered to “encourage” them to register or make a decision not to take their patients.

Do these three things and PECOS will not be a problem for you. Best of all, these are not hard. If you are using HomecareNet from Mediware, we recommend:

Use the Rock-Pond PECOS Database Audit to find out exactly where you stand right now.
Set up a PECOS organization in your HomecareNet system and add it as an affiliation to all of the physicians you work with who you’ve verified are registered in PECOS. Modify your intake process to check this whenever a Medicare patient is admitted.
Work with your physicians to see that they get registered.