CMS Announces 12-Month Contingency Plan for NPI Compliance

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CMS Announces 12-Month Contingency Plan for NPI Compliance

On Monday, April 2, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a press release that they will implement a contingency plan for covered entities (health plans) that will not meet the May 23, 2007 National Provider Identifier (NPI) compliance date.

For additional details, please refer to the CMS Contingency Plan PDF available on the CMS Web site at

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/08_NPIContingencyPlanning.asp

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