# Medicare Program; Requirements for Providers and Suppliers To Establish and Maintain Medicare Enrollment
> **Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services** · Final rule. · Published 2006-04-21 · Effective 2006-06-20 · 71 FR 20754
## Document
- **Document number:** 06-3722
- **Category:** medicare
- **Sub-agency:** Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- **Federal Register citation:** 71 FR 20754
- **CFR reference:** 42 CFR 420
- **Publication date:** 2006-04-21
- **Effective date:** 2006-06-20
- **HHS docket:** CMS-6002-F
## Abstract

This final rule requires that all providers and suppliers (other than physicians or practitioners who have elected to "opt-out" of the Medicare program) complete an enrollment form and submit specific information to us. This final rule also requires that all providers and suppliers periodically update and certify the accuracy of their enrollment information to receive and maintain billing privileges in the Medicare program. In addition, this final rule implements provisions in the statute that require us to ensure that all Medicare providers and suppliers are qualified to provide the appropriate health care services. These statutory provisions include requirements meant to protect beneficiaries and the Medicare Trust Funds by preventing unqualified, fraudulent, or excluded providers and suppliers from providing items or services to Medicare beneficiaries or billing the Medicare program or its beneficiaries.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/04/21/06-3722/medicare-program-requirements-for-providers-and-suppliers-to-establish-and-maintain-medicare)
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