Revalidation clock

Definition

The five-year re-enrollment every Medicaid provider must clear, whoever owns it.

Why It Matters

It decides whether a buyer inherits four years of runway or four months. A target mid-cycle is a target whose next full screening lands on the new owner. Federal rule requires the ownership disclosures to be filed again within thirty-five days of any change in ownership. A buyer enrolling as a new provider pays the application fee unless it is already enrolled with Medicare or another state, or paid the fee there. Read the enrollment file for the date, not the seller's memory of it, and put the fee in the sources and uses.