The National Provider Identifier is unique number assigned to healthcare providers that are covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which is known as HIPAA. The Centers ...

Providers can monitor claims and reimbursements to verify that billed services match actual income and that reimbursements are not being diverted elsewhere. HealthDay News — National Provider ...

Healthcare and Medicare providers that experience financial woes as a result of the new National Provider Identifier standard may qualify for advance or accelerated payments, according to the Centers ...

Most of the time when we discuss identity theft in healthcare, it's in regard to patients' identities stolen by imposters who want to use their insurance. In a medical practice, physicians' identities ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently updated the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), which impacts all physicians, providers, and suppliers that use NPPES to ...

CMS will deny certain Medicare claims that don’t contain a valid national provider identifier for the ordering or certifying healthcare professional starting Jan. 6. The new practice will affect ...

May 23 has come and gone, and national provider identifiers have been used during the course of several billing cycles now. The dust is beginning to settle, enabling providers and payers alike to ...

The National Provider Identifier, or NPI, is a new field added to the Personal Data Form and myHR and is required for faculty physician hires. Due to a change in benefits processing for Feinberg ...

HUNTINGTON -- The West Virginia Bureau for Medical Services will implement National Provider Identifiers today. NPI is a unique identification number for providers of medical services. It replaces the ...

Medicare Advantage insurers seldom include identification numbers for clinicians who order certain medical services in the patient records they submit to CMS, the HHS Office of Inspector General found ...