NPIs: Now's The Time To Double-Check Your Information In The Database
Hurry up and wait for NPI database access.Just when it seemed like your troubles with obtaining the national provider identifiers (NPIs) for referring doctors were at an end, it turns out you'll be making do for a little longer.Delay: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had planned to give you access to the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) database at the end of June. This would have allowed you to look up your referring physicians' NPI numbers, or just download the whole database.But now CMS is delaying your access to this information...
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