Eligible Physicians and Non-Physician Practitioners who need to Enroll in the Medicare Program for the Sole Purpose of Ordering and Referring Items and Services for Medicare Beneficiaries

CR 7097, from which this article is taken, announces that physicians and non- physician practitioners will need to enroll in the Medicare program so they can order and refer items and services for Medicare beneficiaries. The enrollment requirement is applicable to those physician and non-physician practitioners of a profession eligible to order and refer who are:
• Employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (DVA), Public Health Service (PHS), Department of Defense (DOD) TRICARE, or by Medicare enrolled Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), Rural Health Clinics, (RHC), or Critical Access Hospitals (CAH);
• Physicians in a fellowship; or
• Dentists, including oral surgeons.
• Other employed eligible physicians and non-physician practitioners