tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 6

HIPAA: Providers Clued In To One More HIPAA Standard

National Provider Identifier will replace all "legacy" IDs in 2005. Health care providers will have four years to get ramped up on the latest HIPAA transaction standard. As part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act transactions rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected the "National Provider Identifier" - a single ID number for all providers - as the standard for identifying health care providers on electronic claims and other transactions. The hope is that the NPI will cut costs and administrative chores by doing away with the multitude of identification numbers currently clogging...

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