Every identifier, enrollment and system a new practice or a new MSO location needs before it can see and bill its first insured patient, in the order they depend on each other. Agnotic Technologies builds the software that tracks the chain, to your requirements.
For practice owners, administrators and MSO operations leads, and for the teams building their onboarding and billing software.
The chain before the first claim
A new medical practice needs NPIs, a CAQH ProView profile, Medicare enrollment in PECOS, Medicaid and commercial payer enrollment, clearinghouse, ERA and EFT setup, a configured EHR and practice management system, an eligibility check and a test claim. Agnotic Technologies builds the software that tracks each step and the record it produces.
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The steps themselves are well known. Delays come from doing them out of order, or from records that do not agree across systems.
A payer application goes in before the NPIs or the CAQH ProView profile are ready, and comes back incomplete.
Legal name, tax ID or address differ between the NPI record, the IRS letter and a payer application, and the mismatch stalls enrollment.
Staff book insured visits before a clinician's enrollment with that payer is in place, and the claims are denied.
Payer IDs, fee schedules and provider records are keyed separately into the EHR, the practice management system and the clearinghouse, and drift apart.
CAQH re-attestation, licenses, DEA registrations and malpractice cover expire on different dates, tracked by whoever remembers.
Rejections from a wrong payer ID or a provider not yet enrolled take days to trace back to the setup step that caused them.
Agnotic Technologies builds the software that tracks and checks this chain, to your requirements, for one practice or an MSO opening many locations. Your team or a credentialing service still files the applications.
Each new location gets the setup steps as tasks with owners, due dates and dependencies, and a go-live gate that stays shut until the eligibility test and the first claim pass.
Every clinician's NPI, CAQH, Medicare, Medicaid and commercial status in one view, with effective dates per payer and alerts before re-attestation or revalidation.
Licenses, DEA certificates, malpractice cover and signed applications stored once, reused across applications and watched for expiry.
Payer IDs, fee schedules and provider records pushed to the EHR and practice management system from one source, with a log of every change.
The schedule warns staff, or blocks the booking, when an insured visit falls before the clinician's effective date with that payer.
X12 270/271 checks for a known member with each payer and the first 837P claim followed through to a posted 835, with rejections mapped back to the setup step.
Controlled substance orders blocked for clinicians without a DEA number in their setup, and in-office tests tied to the CLIA certificate that covers them.
The steps run in order. Steps 2 and 3 can run side by side once the NPIs exist; every later step needs the ones above it.
Produces a Type 1 NPI for each clinician and a Type 2 NPI for the practice. Held in NPPES, then copied into the practice management system and every payer application.
Produces an attested CAQH ProView profile per clinician that commercial payers read for credentialing. Held in CAQH ProView.
Produces approved Medicare enrollment and billing privileges for the group and each clinician. Held in PECOS, with each PTAN recorded in the practice management system.
Produces a provider or group ID and an effective date for each payer and plan. Held in each payer's provider file; tracked in your enrollment tracker.
Produces a clearinghouse account, electronic claim enrollment, ERA (X12 835) and EFT enrollment with each payer. Held in the clearinghouse, the payer portals and your bank.
Produces a configured EHR and practice management system. Held in those systems, with a change log.
Produces a successful X12 270 request and 271 response for a known member with each major payer. Held in the practice management system and clearinghouse logs.
Produces an accepted claim and a remittance that posts. Held in the clearinghouse, the payer and the practice management system.
The same chain as a table: what each step produces, where that record lives and which later steps cannot start without it.
| Step | Record it produces | System that holds it | Needed before |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. NPIs and taxonomy | Type 1 and Type 2 NPIs with taxonomy codes | NPPES | Every enrollment and claim |
| 2. CAQH ProView | Attested profile per clinician | CAQH ProView | Commercial payer credentialing |
| 3. Medicare in PECOS | Enrollment, reassignment and PTANs | PECOS | Medicare eligibility checks and claims |
| 4. Medicaid and commercial payers | Provider IDs, contracts and effective dates | Payer provider files | Claims and ERA or EFT enrollment for that payer |
| 5. Clearinghouse, ERA and EFT | Claim, ERA and EFT enrollments | Clearinghouse, payers and bank | Electronic claims and posting |
| 6. EHR and PM configuration | Providers, locations, payers and fee schedule | EHR and practice management system | The eligibility test and first claim |
| 7. Eligibility test | Successful 270/271 response | PM system and clearinghouse logs | Booking insured visits |
| 8. First test claim | Accepted 837P and a posted 835 | Clearinghouse, payer and PM system | Normal billing |
Some services cannot begin until a separate approval exists, whatever the payer enrollments say.
Testing patient specimens in the office, even with waived tests, needs a CLIA certificate that covers those tests before the first one is run.
Clinicians who will prescribe controlled substances need a DEA registration, which also needs the state authority to prescribe.
Electronic prescriptions for controlled substances need an e-prescribing application that meets the DEA requirements, set up for each prescriber.
Before patient data arrives: a security risk analysis, policies and training, and a business associate agreement with every vendor that touches PHI.
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Short facts from the federal rules behind the identifier, enrollment and service gate steps, each linked to its primary source.
A covered health care provider must obtain an NPI for itself, and may obtain NPIs for qualifying subparts, must use it on every standard transaction that needs a provider identifier, and must report changes to its required NPPES data within 30 days.
Source: 45 CFR 162.410(a) (eCFR)To receive payment for covered Medicare items or services, a provider or supplier must be enrolled in the Medicare program; once enrolled, it receives billing privileges and a valid billing number.
Source: 42 CFR 424.505 (eCFR)Under CLIA, a laboratory must hold a current certificate that covers the category of examinations it performs, such as a certificate of waiver or a certificate of compliance, unless it is CLIA-exempt.
Source: 42 CFR 493.3(a) (eCFR)Every person who manufactures, distributes, dispenses, imports or exports a controlled substance must obtain a DEA registration, unless exempted by law.
Source: 21 CFR 1301.11(a) (eCFR)A practitioner may issue an electronic prescription for a Schedule II, III, IV or V controlled substance only when registered with DEA or exempt, using an electronic prescription application that meets DEA's requirements; a prescription made with an application that does not meet them is not valid.
Source: 21 CFR 1311.100 (eCFR)
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