tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 20
NPIs: At Last, NPI Requirements Are Getting Clearer
You can use UPINs for referring physicians until May 2008.Your providers should already have their own national provider identifiers (NPIs), officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) told a May 10 special open door forum on NPI issues. Even if you obtain a contingency plan, you still may be required to have NPIs for all providers as soon as July 1. But when it comes to listing the provider number of a referring physician, you have much more leeway. You have until May 2008 to include NPIs for referring physicians. Until then, you can...
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