NPPES

What is NPI? The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is an Administrative Simplification Standard under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). For covered health care providers, the NPI is a unique identifying number. In the administrative and financial activities required by HIPAA, covered healthcare providers, all health plans, and health care clearinghouses must use …

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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS has developed the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to assign unique identifiers to health care providers. The National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) assigns NPIs, maintains and updates information about health care providers with NPIs, and disseminates the NPI Registry and NPPES Downloadable File. The …

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