Today is the deadline for the NPI for health care claims...BD
May 23 is the compliance date for the National Provider Identifier to be used exclusively for electronic health care claims under HIPAA. Barring a last minute government decision to extend the deadline, health insurers starting today will reject and return electronic claims that do not include the identifier.
As of May 1, the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System had issued NPIs to 2.55 million providers—1.93 million individual providers and 620,593 provider organizations, according to figures from Fox Systems Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., the NPI enumerator. That figure suggests nearly all providers who bill for health care services have an NPI, as CMS previously estimated nearly 2.3 million identifiers were needed.
If there is an uproar of protest across the industry--which would start on May 27 as claims generated over the Memorial Day holiday weekend are denied--it is possible that CMS would relax the deadline, Booz notes. “But if I were a health care provider, I wouldn’t count on it.”
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