NPI
What is NPI?
The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) standard. The NPI is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. Covered health care providers, health plans, and health care clearinghouses will use the NPI in the administrative and financial transactions adopted under HIPAA. The NPI is a 10-position, intelligence-free numeric identifier (10-digit number). The NPI will replace all other provider plan IDs and must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standard transactions.
CMS announced that through May 23, 2008, they will not impose penalties on covered entities that deploy contingency plans to facilitate the compliance of their trading partners (e.g. those healthcare providers who bill them).
What is Availity doing about NPI?
Effective May 17, 2008, Availity supports payers that require NPI according to mandate regulations, as well as payers that will continue with their NPI contingency plans. For more information regarding the specific impact to you, please visit one of the links below.
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Availity NPI FAQs
For a list of Availity's Frequently Asked Questions regarding NPI, please see Availity NPI FAQs.
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