A new fact sheet with answers to questions that health care providers may have regarding the National Provider Identifier (NPI) is available on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Web site. Because CMS recently updated and continues to update its Web site, the California Department of Health Services suggests providers bookmark the NPI Overview page of the CMS Web site. To view the new fact sheet, click the “Educational Resources” link. This site also contains a section for Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) providers with helpful information about the Medicare NPI implementation.

For more information about private industry NPI outreach, visit the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) NPI Outreach Initiative Web site.

Mandatory implementation of the NPI starts November 26, 2007.