NCVHS urges NPI extension
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, February 26, 2007
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HHS should allow a six-month national provider identifier (NPI) contingency period which would let providers exchange both NPIs and legacy identifiers to ensure payment, the chairman of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) recommended.
Although the industry has made some progress on NPI implementation, "we remain skeptical that the industry will be able to meet the target date for NPI compliance," wrote Simon P. Cohn, MD, MPH. Many providers have failed to apply for an NPI, and more have not completed the necessary testing and crosswalking to ensure success.
HHS should also move swiftly to allow access to the National Plan/Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), Cohn urged. "Many plans need NPPES data to build crosswalks between legacy provider identifiers and NPIs in their own systems to ensure validation of the NPIs given to them by providers and to ensure timely processing of transactions," he wrote.
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