tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 15

COMPLIANCE: Don't Expect Everybody Else To Be Up To Speed In Time

Extra NPI leeway may be a trap--Watch for this glitch.You now have an extra year to get up and running with national provider identifiers (NPIs). But you might want to send that particular gift back to the store.Better safe than sorry: Even though the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has said it will give you an extra year's wriggle room on NPIs, other payors can start requiring them in May 2007, according to Martin Jensen, chief operating officer and chief analyst with Health IT Transition Group in Tulsa, OK. "It's already happening," Jensen says...

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