Providers, Health Plans, and the NPI: Is HIPAA Administrative Simplification Making it . . . Simple?

Tom Bixby, Partner, Neal, Gerber, & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago, IL, addresses issues related to implementing the National Provider Identifier, including the interaction of providers and health plans concerning NPI implementation, the assignment of NPIs to providers and their subparts, and transactions involving providers with no NPI. He discusses Medicare’s and other health plans’ approaches to NPI and how they affect health care providers.