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  1. Apr 2025
    1. CROSSWALKMEDICARE PROVIDER/SUPPLIER to HEALTHCARE PROVIDER TAXONOM

      This is the crosswalk between the NPPES and PECOS provider type systems.

    1. If your taxonomy code is invalid or your taxonomy indicates you do not have the right to prescribe certain drugs, pharmacies using Express Scripts, Inc. (ESI)—our primary pharmacy network—will not fill your patients’ prescriptions.

      This is a good example of how the NPPES taxonomy code is being relied on in the public.

    1. The Complete History of the NPI Number The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is an under-appreciated marvel of the modern healthcare system.

      This is a wonderful history of the NPI system.

    1. Part D plans must submit an electronic record, called a PDE record, toCMS for each covered prescription filled for their enrollees. CMSrequires that most PDE records contain an identifier for the drug’sprescriber. Acceptable prescriber identifiers include National ProviderIdentifiers (NPI), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registrationnumbers, Unique Physician Identification Numbers (UPIN), and Statelicense numbers

      This report calls for using NPI to correct mistaken provider identifiers in Part D programs.

    1. US Department of Health and Human ServicesPrivacy Impact AssessmentDate Signed:12/22/2016OPDIV:CMSName:National Plan and Provider Enumeration System

      The NPPES Privacy Impact Assesment.

    1. National Standard Health CareProvider IdentifierAGENCY : Health Care FinancingAdministration (HCFA), HHS.ACTION: Proposed rule.SUMMARY : This rule proposes a standardfor a national health care provideridentifier and requirements concerningits use by health plans, health careclearinghouses, and health careproviders.

      This is the proposed rule (not the final) for NPS the predecessor to NPPES.

    1. the same name andNational Provider Identifier (NPI) (asrequired to be reported in this final rule)should be used consistently for allpayment lines and any subsequentupdates for the same individual.

      Final rule from the Sunshine act details exactly how the NPI should be leveraged for reporting.

    1. The name of the covered recipient.‘‘(ii) The business address of the covered recipientand, in the case of a covered recipient who is a physi-cian, the specialty and National Provider Identifierof the covered recipient.‘‘(iii) The amount of the payment or other transferof value.‘‘(iv) The dates on which the payment or othertransfer of value was provided to the covered recipient.‘‘(v) A description of the form of the payment orother transfer of value, indicated (as appropriate forall that apply) as—‘‘(I) cash or a cash equivalent;‘‘(II) in-kind items or services;‘‘(III) stock, a stock option, or any other owner-ship interest, dividend, profit, or other return oninvestment; or‘‘(IV) any other form of payment

      This is the requirement in the Sunshine Act that reports of payments that physicians have recieved will not include the NPI of the Physician.

    1. Department of Health and Human ServicesOFFICE OFINSPECTOR GENERALMPROVEMENTS EEDED TOE NSURE P ROVIDERE NUMERATION AND MEDICAREENROLLMENT DATA AREACCURATE , C OMPLETE , ANDONSISTENTDaniel R. LevinsonInspector GeneralMay 2013OEI-07-09-00440I NC

      This is the OIG report on the failings of NPPES.

    1. Of the 10,504 locations reviewed, providers should not have been listed at 33.14% (3,481) of thelocations (2,088 + 1,393, as shown in Table 5) either because the provider did not work at thelocation or because the provider did not accept the plan at the location. In 1,393 of theseinstances, the provider should not have been listed at any of the locations in the directory. Therewere 690 phone numbers that were wrong or disconnected and 364 incorrect addresses. Finally,there were 221 instances in which the provider was found not to be accepting new patients,although the directory indicated that the provider was accepting new patients. Table 5 provides abreakdown of deficiencies identified by CMS during the review process.

      This is a review of Medicare Advantage Plans provider directories. It details multiple failings in these provider directories. NPPES is not directly mentioned, but is likely the source of the various business address problems in the data.

    1. In accordance with the NPPES Data DisseminationNotice (CMS-6060), published May 30, 2007, certain information that you furnish will be publicly disclosed. The NPPES DataDissemination Notice can be found at https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand/Downloads/NPPES_FOIA_Data-Elements_062007.pdf.

      This is the link between the current NPPES paper form and the details about which data fields will be disseminated.

    2. NATIONAL PROVIDER IDENTIFIER (NPI) APPLICATION/UPDATE FORM

      This is the paper form version of NPPES. CMS-10114 is the form number. It was revised in 2021.

    1. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is pleased to announce theavailability of a new identifier for use in the standard electronic health care transactions.The National Provider Identifier (NPI) will be the single provider identifier, replacir1g thedifferent provider identifiers you currently use for each health plan with which you dobusiness.

      This is the 2005 letter to providers announcing the NPI standard.

    1. The NCVHS has been briefed on theproposal for the National Provider Identifier(NPI), and we offer our strong support.

      This is NCVHS, which is a committee that advises the HHS secretary on things, recommends the NPI standard based on briefings on the matter.

    1. In the January 23, 2004 Federal Register (69 FR 3434), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a final rule establishing the standard for a unique health identifier for health care providers for use in the health care system and adopting the National Provider Identifier (NPI) as that standard (“2004 NPI final rule”). The rule also established the implementation specifications for obtaining and using the NPI. Since that time, pharmacies have encountered situations where they need to include the NPI of a prescribing health care provider in a pharmacy claim, but where the prescribing health care provider has been a noncovered health care provider who did not have an NPI because he or she was not required to obtain one. This situation has become particularly problematic in the Medicare Part D program. The addition to the NPI requirements addresses this issue.

      This is where NPI became required for prescribing.

    1. SORN 09-70-0555 System Name: National Plan and Provider Enumeration System" (NPPES), HHS/CMS/OFM.

      This is the current SORN for NPPES. Does not appear to have changed since 2017.

    1. Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records A Notice by the Health and Human Services Department on 02/14/2018

      This is a list of SORNS that are impacted by a privacy change.. and it includes NPPES

    1. Privacy Act of 1974; Report of a New Routine Use for Selected CMS Systems of Records A Notice by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on 05/29/2013

      This is an addition of the use of NPPES to fight waste fraud and abuse. In 2013.

    1. newsystem of records, called the ‘‘NationalProvider System (NPS),

      This is the original SORN for the predecessor to NPPES: NPS.

    1. HIPAA Administrative Simplification: National Plan and Provider Enumeration System Data Dissemination

      This is the regulations.gov version of the NPPES data dissemination notice. With this version it an be easier to see related documents and other content from the regulatory process.

    1. HIPAA Administrative Simplification: National Plan and Provider Enumeration System Data Dissemination

      The NPI Dissemination rule is what determines what is FOIA available from the NPPES data.

    1. National Provider Identifier Standard (NPI): Educational Resources

      This page makes reference to educational resources about the NPI system sent out to providers. This includes MLN Matters articles and NPI Roundtables.

    1. Medicare NPI Implementation

      This is the homepage for six different documents related to the transition between the old Medicare identifiers and the new NPI system.

    1. National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Changes

      This is the notice that caused NPPES to start to track gender identity. It also changed how individual providers could use address PO Boxes.

    1. HIPAA Administrative Simplification:Standard Unique Health Identifier forHealth Care Providers

      This in the NPI Final Rule, which establishes the details of what NPPES is an how it works.