Course Description:
Many organizations continue to utilize a practitioner’s individual login when accessing NPPES and PECOS to create or maintain their Medicare enrollment information. CMS has been very clear that only a practitioner themselves should be using this login and all other individuals or organizations assisting the practitioner with these updates should be utilizing their own individual login. With regulatory requirements to add endpoints to practitioners NPIs, Medicare Advantage plans utilizing NPIs as provider directories and implementation of the Multi-Factor Authentication in PECOS, now is the time to properly set up your organization to manage your practitioner enrollments/NPIs as a surrogate. This presentation will walk you through the PECOS Identity and Access roles available, proper set up for your organization, and how to request and receive approval for surrogacy to easily manage enrollments/NPIs of practitioners or other organizations.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize the PECOS Identify and Access Management (I&A) System and the proper roles for compliant set up of your organization.
• Demonstrate how to create your own individual PECOS I&A login and how to request surrogacy access on behalf of practitioners.
• Discuss how to compliantly manage multiple practitioner Medicare enrollments and NPIs under your single login.
• Access your organization or practitioner Medicare enrollments to easily make required updates, establish reassignments or revalidate an enrollment record.
• Determine how to easily add, remove or manage staff in PECOS I&A to ensure only the proper individuals have access.