Transitioning Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Certification Enrollment Performed by the CMS Survey and Operations Group (SOG)

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will be transitioning certain certification enrollment functions performed by the CMS Locations (formerly CMS Regional Offices) to CMS’ Center for Program Integrity (CPI) Provider Enrollment Oversight Group (PEOG) and the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs). • The first transition of certification enrollment work commenced with voluntary terminations. • The next transition of certification enrollment work is Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) on March 15, 2021. • The State Operations Manual (SOM) and Program Integrity Manual (PIM) will be updated accordingly to reflect these changes. • Attached is a standard operating procedure for the processing of FQHC certification enrollment work.