Part B Insider (Multispecialty) Coding Alert
Last Chance To Test Your BPIs On Claims
Published on Thu Sep 20, 2007 
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Watch out: Medicare will start requiring National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) on all claims by Jan. 1.
Both the billing and pay-to fields must include an NPI by the start of next year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced. You can keep submitting NPI/legacy pairs, or submit only the NPI. But if you submit claims with only a legacy number, Medicare will reject them.
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