Avoid payment hold-ups with 'good faith effort' on NPIs.If some of the payors you deal with or some of the providers who refer to you aren't up and running with national provider identifiers (NPIs) by May 23, you could be stuck in a no-win situation. You may be forced to include a unique provider identifier number (UPIN) or other legacy number for some of your referral sources, for example. "It means having to cater to one provider, adjusting numbers," says Linda Huckaby with Carolina Medical Rehab in Greenville, SC. With electronic claims, there's no telling how much...
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