CMS issues new NPI FAQs
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, March 5, 2007
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You cannot use your employer identification number (EIN) instead of the national provider identifier (NPI) to identify yourself as a healthcare provider on standard transactions, according to the answer to a new frequently-asked question (FAQ) on the CMS Web site. Use your EIN only to identify your organization as a taxpayer.
Other new FAQs include the following:
- For Medicare provider enrollment purposes, must group practices submit new CMS-855Rs for every member of the group practice to let Medicare know their NPIs?
- Will health plans link the NPIs of group practices to the NPIs of the healthcare providers who are members of the group practices?
- Must a corporation that owns pharmacies (that have NPIs) obtain an NPI in order to receive payments on behalf of the owned pharmacies?
Click here to view the FAQs.
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