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 ...

Healthcare managers both in and outside of IT got a reprieve last week when CMS agreed to postpone the deadline by which all providers must get and use a national provider identifier number. Hospitals ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Industry and HHS should collaborate to develop a voluntary standardized identifier for provider networks that is consistent across all segments of the health insurance markets. To accomplish this, we ...

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 ...