Medicare Advantage & PECOS 2026 Updates: Accelerate Enrollment and Reimbursement

Course Description

Are you ready for the new and improved PECOS Experience for 2026? PECOS 2.0 will make the Medicare enrollment and revalidation processes faster and easier. In addition to greater overall efficiency, users will be able to track their application status in real time. Let’s review the 2026 CMS Medicare PECOS 2.0 big changes step by step. This change has taken years to finally arrive and everyone needs to understand every portion of the application that will impact the Medicare provider participation process for your organization and each individual practitioner. CMS Medicare PECOS 2.0 will impact how you enroll and validate your Medicare providers. It’s urgent that you understand the updates because you are responsible for Medicare applications and revalidations.

Master the new Medicare PECOS 2.0 changes to protect your practices from payment delays and to protect your license to see Medicare patients. Expert Yesenia Servin will take you inside of Medicare PECOS 2.0 and will help you to get your Medicare enrollment and validation right with the actual screenshots and examples.

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Learning Outcomes

• Examine the updated PECOS process
• Dig into each step of the Medicare enrollment process via PECOS 2.0
• Understand the new provider enrollment process on PECOS 2.0
• Know how to effectively Manage your group members
• Proactive actions to stop provider validation denials
• Understand new revalidation process
• Know the enrollment and validation time and deadlines
• Learn the tracking of your Medicare enrollment applications
• Learn new modified process for sole proprietors adding locations
• Know how large practices in several states or with multiple locations add and validate providers, the process for board members or managers to manage the enrollment and validation process

Areas Covered in the Session

Recommended Participants

• Physicians and NPPs
• Credentialing Specialist 
• Revenue Cycle Directors 
• Revenue Cycle Managers 
• Enrollment Specialist 
• Hospitals and Facilities 
• Mental Health Providers 
• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LCPC) 
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) 
• Practice and Clinic Owners
• Hospital Leadership 
• Authorized Officials  
• Delegated Officials 
• Office Manager 
• Operations Staff 
• Billing Team 
• In and Out of Network Providers  
• Medical Billing Companies 
• Providers Office Staff 
• Insurance Companies 
• Healthcare Attorneys 
• Executive and Administrators 
• Front Desk Manager and Staff
• Authorizations Staff 
• Medical Assistants 
• Certified Nursing Assistants

About the Presenter

Yesenia Servin, CPMSM, PESC, is an expert in credentialing and provider/payer enrollment with over 23 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Yesenia has a deep understanding of Medicare & Medicaid enrollment and is a nationally certified credentialing manager and provider enrollment specialist. Through, YS Credentialing PLLC, Yesenia helps organizations develop and implement best practices guidelines and processes for credentialing and payer enrollment structure. Yesenia manages payer enrollment, keeps team members and colleagues up to date on industry trends, and is a liaison to all departments that impact payer-enrollment processes. Yesenia works with durable medical equipment, hospital and health systems, and community mental health organizations, global managed care organizations as well as providing revenue cycle consulting services to various healthcare providers and organizations.

Yesenia is a current CharterOak University Faculty, NAMSS member, and is a past NAMSS Educational Conference Guest Speaker, a current member of the NAHRI Leadership Council, current trainer for The Chicago School of Professional Psychology trainer and a TMG Collaborator. Yesenia studied microeconomics and communications at NEIU and healthcare administration at Concordia University Chicago. 

Additional Information

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