The National Provider Identifier is unique number assigned to healthcare providers that are covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which is known as HIPAA. The Centers ...

Twenty percent of the addresses associated with the National Provider Identification numbers issued by the federal government this year are wrong, a new report contends. Some 19.7 percent of the ...

Area code 541 covers the majority of Oregon, excluding the northwestern region primarily served by area code 503 and the ...

That "need to know" policy should apply within the practice as well, she said. NPIs should be shared only with those who need them to do their jobs, such as coders and billers. And because physicians ...