The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in the December 11, 2025,
MLN Connections Newsletter that the mandatory off-cycle SNF provider enrollment revalidation deadline of January 1, 2026, has been
suspended indefinitely. AHCA has been regularly advocating to CMS about this deadline and the many difficulties providers have faced recently and throughout the process.
CMS shared that it "will provide additional information in future updates to this guidance." It also shared two additional resources:
Why This is Happening Over the past year, SNF providers have experienced various challenges with meeting the complex and extensive new provider enrollment reporting requirements. AHCA advocated to CMS about these issues, which resulted in three prior deadline extensions in 2025.
Over the past several weeks, hundreds of AHCA members reported new, serious technical problems with the CMS PECOS provider enrollment system. AHCA escalated these issues to CMS officials seeking resolution and requesting a suspension of the January 1, 2026, compliance deadline so these issues could be resolved. AHCA voiced concerns about the additional burdens impacted providers are facing, and the significant risk of payment suspensions should they not meet the reporting deadline due to these systems issues.
What Providers Should Do
- According to the notice from CMS, “Enrolled SNFs should continue collecting data on ownership, managerial, and related party information and submit their revalidation. However, there is no submission deadline until further notice.” The underlying SNF provider enrollment reporting policies have not changed. Every effort should be taken to ensure the needed data elements regarding ownership and operational and managerial control disclosable entities and individuals are available to submit once further CMS guidance is issued.
- SNF providers that have previously submitted their provider enrollment Form CMS-855A information via PECOS or paper submission and received a request for more information to be submitted by a certain date, should still submit that requested information by the specified due date. Contact the Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) provider enrollment helpdesk for further guidance if there are systems-related problems that may impact meeting the stated response deadline.
- SNF providers should ensure that their draft data remains active in PECOS during this suspension period. Details for how to keep the draft data active can be found in Section VIII of the 855 guidance instructions.
AHCA will continue our advocacy efforts to seek more rational regulations and streamline reporting requirements, including related to the SNF provider enrollment policies. Please contact the
AHCA SNF provider enrollment revalidation helpdesk with questions.