tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 39

INDUSTRY NOTES: January Is Drop-Dead NPI Deadline, CMS Says

Plus: Prepare to fight a powerful insurance lobby to stop 10 percent pay cutYou can count on one more requirement to make the new year even crazier than usual. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has set a deadline for Medicare providers to begin using National Provider Identifiers (NPIs). "Effective January 1, 2008, your Medicare fee-for-service claims received must include an NPI in the primary fields on the claim (i.e., the billing and pay-to fields)," CMS says in a message to providers.You can submit NPI/legacy pairs in those fields or submit only your NPI...

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