tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 34

PHYSICIANS: NPIs And When To Apply-Now Or Later?

Doctors who hold off could be sorry.Should a physician wait to apply for a National Provider Identifier? Sometimes there are benefits to being an early adopter, but it may pay off to wait until the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services irons out any bugs in the NPI application process, say experts. After all, physicians have over a year to apply.Medicare started accepting NPI applications in May and will accept NPIs starting in January, as long as they're accompanied by existing Medicare numbers. Alert: From October 2006 to May 2007, Medicare will accept either NPIs or Medicare...

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