Verified firsthand against the live CMS-10114 (Rev. 02/25, OMB 0938-0931):
- Section 1A confirms paper is valid for Change of Information (#2) AND
Reactivation (#4), not just initial enumeration. Resolves the UNCERTAIN flag.
- Current mailing address is CMS NPI Enumerator Services, Mail Stop DO-01-51,
7500 Security Blvd, Baltimore MD 21244. The old Fargo PO Box 6059 is retired;
corrected in mac_routing.NPI_ENUMERATOR + all docs.
- No electronic no-login equivalent exists for CMS (NPI Registry API is
read-only; PECOS/NPPES-IA require login), unlike FMCSA's ask.fmcsa ticket form.
So tiers stay: Standard=paper CMS-10114 (no login), Expedited=NPPES surrogate.
New: cms10114_pdf_filler.py fills the flat official form via text overlay
(reason checkbox + NPI + Section 2A identity + Section 4A cert name + signature
anchor); wired into npi_provider._generate_10114_for_signing for nppes-update.
Signed forms route to the NPI Enumerator via the existing daily batch.
Tests: test_cms10114.py 27/27, test_paper_batch.py 15/15, Astro build 58 pages.
Standard (no-login) CMS filings are mailed in one Priority Mail envelope per
destination agency, batched each postal working-day morning to save postage.
- migration 089: paper_filing_batches table + esign_records.paper_batch_id /
filing_destination_key (idempotent: a filing is batched at most once).
- batch_cover_sheet.py: per-agency cover sheet (sender/dest/date/manifest) +
merged print-job PDF (cover + all enclosed signed filings).
- daily_paper_batch.py worker: gather signed+unbatched cms855/cms10114 filings,
group by destination (MAC by state via mac_routing; Fargo for CMS-10114),
build cover+merged PDF per agency, persist batch, mark filings batched.
Self-gates on postal working days (skips weekends + federal/USPS holidays).
Phase 1 = human prints+mails; phase 2 = wire print-mail API.
- worker-crons: pw-paper-batch systemd timer (Mon-Fri 13:30 UTC, self-gated).
- test_paper_batch.py: 15/15 pass (working-day gating, routing, cover+merge).
