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CMS Expands Medicare's Authority to Deny and Terminate Physicians and Other Providers-Why This Matters

The Health Law Firm

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Stop me if you've heard this one before: the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently increased Medicare's authority over physicians and other health care providers. On December 3, 2014, CMS released these new anti-fraud measures. This matters to physicians and health care providers because Medicare now maintains the authority to deny or revoke the enrollment of medical providers for m