Dear Colleague,

With the May 23 deadline for implementation of National Provider Identifiers (NPI) less than nine months away, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched an aggressive campaign to ensure all physicians are in compliance before that date. CMS has even adopted a slogan – NPI: Get It. Share It. Use It. – to underscore the importance of this initiative.

Medicare announced that it will begin accepting claims containing only NPIs as of October 1, 2006. At that time, Medicare will not require you to submit your legacy number, but Medicare is requesting that you continue to include it to facilitate further testing of the system. Navicure also requests that you continue to send your legacy numbers to Navicure in addition to your NPI whenever possible. Remember, too, that Medicare requires that all providers obtain an NPI prior to enrolling in Medicare or updating their current enrollment.

Navicure is committed to helping ensure that all our clients are in compliance before May 23 and experience no disruption in service with any payer – Medicare or otherwise. Once you receive your NPI, please forward it to Navicure and we’ll automatically add the NPI to your Navicure Provider Profile. Between now and the May 2007 deadline, Navicure will also monitor NPI requirements on a payer-by-payer basis to ensure that the proper number (NPI, legacy or both) is submitted.

If you have any questions about the NPI process, feel free to contact Client Services at 770-342-0800. As always, we stand ready to assist in any way possible.

Sincerely,

Jim Denny
President
jdenny@navicure.com

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