tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 21

NPIs: Deadline To Obtain NPIs For New Doctors Is Coming Up

Warning:  Carriers won't give you any leeway on enrollment jam.If you don't have national provider identifiers (NPIs) for all of your providers, you may have trouble enrolling them in Medicare--even before an upcoming deadline. Problem #1: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that all Medicare enrollment applications must include NPIs for all providers. Starting June 5, you have to use the new CMS-1500 enrollment form, which CMS unveiled on May 1 and which includes a space for NPIs. Problem #2: Several carriers started rejecting applications that lacked NPIs in early May, before the deadline. In...

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