Medicare News Update, Issue 2006-04: Announcement of Redesigned National Provider Identifier (NPI) Web Page

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Issue 2006-04, April 2006

Announcement of Redesigned National Provider Identifier (NPI) Web Page

Announcing the redesigned Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Web page dedicated to providing all the latest National Provider Identifier (NPI) news for health care providers! Visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/ on the Web.

This page also contains a section for Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) providers with helpful information on the Medicare NPI implementation. A new fact sheet with answers to questions that health care providers may have regarding the NPI is now available on the Web page; bookmark this page as new information and resources will continue to be posted.

For more information on private industry NPI outreach, visit the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) NPI Outreach Initiative Web site at http://www.wedi.org/npioi/index.shtml on the Web.

CMS Joint Signature Memo (JSM-06184) (January 23, 2006)