National Provider Identifier (NPI)
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!
 

As a requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) the National Provider Identifier must be use by most HIPAA covered entities that conduct electronic transactions for which the Secretary has adopted a standard. The National Provider Identifier (NPI) will be the single provider identifier, replacing the different provider identifiers you currently use for each health plan with which you do business.

On January 23, 2004, the Secretary published a Final Rule that adopted the NPI as this identifier. HIPAA covered entities must use NPIs to identify health care providers in standard transaction. These transactions include claims, referrals, and remittance advices.

Many health plans, including Medicare and private health insurance issuer, and all health care clearinghouses must accept and use in standard transactions by May 23, 2007. After this compliance date, health care providers may use only their NPIs to identify themselves in standard transactions.

In accordance with this new regulation, ACODESE invites all the organizations and individual providers to take part of the free forums in the following dates and places:

March16 2007
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla Campus,
“Salón de los Encuentros” 1:00 PM

March 23 2007
Metropolitan University, Cupey Campus 1:00 PM

March 30 2007
Metropolitan University, Cupey Campus 1:00 PM

For more information, call to ACODESE (787) 793-4430