tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 18

NPIs: You Have Until May 2008 To Include Referring Docs' New Numbers

But new drop-dead NPI deadline may be as soon as July.That wiggle room you're supposed to have on National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) just got a little tighter.The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced earlier this month that because providers and other covered entities aren't ready to use NPI numbers on their Medicare claims, it was extending the NPI deadline for a year.Limit: But now CMS says you may have to have your own providers' NPIs on claims as early as July. "As soon as the number of claims submitted with an NPI for primary...

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