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Pillar i · Start-up, Credentialing & Enrollment
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Billing privileges begin at enrollment — and a lapse turns delivered care into unbillable visits.

Agency start-up · enrollment · revalidation · CHOW

Reimbursement starts before the first claim — with a clean PECOS record, current revalidations, and correct ownership and reassignment data. A missed revalidation, an unreported managing-employee change, or a stalled enrollment doesn’t just risk a denial; it deactivates billing and converts weeks of delivered care into write-offs. Right now the stakes are higher still: a nationwide Medicare enrollment moratorium freezes new home health and hospice agencies and restricts certain changes of ownership.

Sub-services within this hub
  1. Agency start-up. Entity setup, licensure, and Medicare/Medicaid certification readiness.
  2. Provider enrollment & PECOS. Initial enrollment, reassignments, and accurate ownership/managing-employee data.
  3. Revalidation management. Deadline tracking and submission so billing privileges never lapse.
  4. Change of ownership (CHOW). Structuring and filing transactions that survive review — including under the moratorium.
  5. Payer enrollment & credentialing. Commercial and Medicaid managed-care enrollment and re-credentialing.
  6. Payer contracting. Participation agreements and rate setup tied to clean enrollment.

The engagement

What you receive

What changes when we work the case:

  • A clean PECOS record that survives revalidation. Ownership, managing-employee, and reassignment data reconciled and current — so a revalidation cycle never deactivates billing.
  • Enrollment approved without avoidable rework. Applications built right the first time — correct forms, ownership disclosures, supporting documents — to clear contractor review without development requests that stall billing.
  • Revalidation deadlines that never lapse. Every provider and reassignment tracked to its due date, with submissions filed ahead of deactivation.
  • CHOW transactions structured to survive review. Change-of-ownership filings built to hold under the active moratorium, with billing continuity protected through the transition.
  • Payer enrollment that keeps pace with Medicare. Commercial and Medicaid managed-care participation and re-credentialing aligned to the same clean record.
The case-file method

Sourced, documented, and built to hold under review.

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The case-file method

Sourced, documented, and built to hold under review.

Regulatory context

The rules this work is built to.

Enrollment has become enforcement’s front door. CMS imposed a nationwide six-month moratorium on new home-health and hospice Medicare enrollment on May 13, 2026 (FR Doc. 2026-09717), restricting certain changes in majority ownership with it — and a separate DMEPOS supplier moratorium has run since February 27, 2026 (91 FR 9855). For everyone already enrolled, revalidations and accurate PECOS data are what keep billing privileges alive: a missed deadline deactivates billing and converts delivered care into write-offs.

The throughline: enrollment, revalidation, and CHOW timing are now strategic decisions made against an active integrity regime — not administrative tasks.

Questions

From the case file.

Can you still enroll a new home health or hospice agency under the moratorium?

The nationwide moratorium freezes new Medicare enrollment for home health and hospice and restricts certain majority-ownership changes. We assess where your situation falls, structure what can move now, and stage the rest so you’re filing-ready the day it lifts.

A revalidation deadline is close — or already missed. What now?

Case file open immediately. We reconcile the PECOS record, build the submission, and file ahead of the deadline; if billing has already deactivated, we work the reactivation and document the gap.

Can you structure a change of ownership (CHOW) that survives review?

Yes. We structure and file CHOW transactions to hold under current ownership-change restrictions, and protect billing continuity so delivered care keeps getting paid through the transition.

What does this cost?

Enrollment work scoped to entity and provider count; revalidation and CHOW scoped to the transaction. Scoping memo in week one before any meaningful commitment.

How quickly can you start?

Standard intake within five business days. Time-sensitive revalidations and deactivations, faster.

Related provider types

Who we do this work for.

When the matter is consequential

We work the case the same way.

30 minutes. No pitch. We open the case file together — and recommend the next step.