Rock-Pond launches FREE NPI / PECOS Search feature

Healthcare providers who have the need to lookup physician NPI information, including the current status of PECOS registration can do so from the Rock-Pond Solutions website for FREE.

Rather than having to go to multiple websites to get the information or go through the technical process of downloading files that are constantly updated by CMS, anyone can simply look this information up from our NPI / PECOS Search page (available from the drop-down Solutions menu).  Physician information be found by providing the NPI number, first name, last name, city or state information.  ‘*’ can be used as a wildcard to find physicians when you are not sure how their name is spelled.

This FREE service compliments our PECOS database audit service which allows a provider to batch audit their entire physician database at one.  This service is available for a nominal charge of $600 and includes unlimited batch audits for a year.  This will be plenty of time for providers to get their files in order by the compliance deadline.  Rock-Pond recommends you purchase a PECOS database audit service to see exactly how many of the physicians referring you Medicare patients are not registered in PECOS, put the process in place to contact and follow up on these physicians and modify your new patient intake process to validate the NPI and PECOS information for all your patients using the FREE Rock-Pond Solutions Search feature.

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HomecareNet PECOS tracking

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:

  1. Identify the physicians you work with that are not registered.
  2. Change your intake process to verify that the physician is registered with PECOS.
  3. 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:

  1. Use the Rock-Pond PECOS Database Audit to find out exactly where you stand right now.
  2. 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. 
  3. Work with your physicians to see that they get registered. 

That’s it.

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