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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (404876)8/6/2008 10:16:31 PM
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The Medicare Part B system, as of this instant, is in total disarray. They are unable to process payments, and have been, since May 23, for a large number of physicians due to enrollment problems related to the adoption of the "National Provider ID". Provider enrollment is backlogged months in processing requests, to the point where they are now having to rubber-stamp applications that traditionally would take 60-90 days to process.

State Medicaid programs are in a similar mess -- except, while they are able to process straight NPI claims, they do so only in conjunction with a "taxonomy code" which identifies the provider's specialty. Unfortunately, there is no perceivable standard as far as the handling of provider taxonomy.

The NPI, which was to simplify reporting, has turned into a crisis for many physicians (specifically, many sole practitioners who are incorporated, which is most of them).

It is a bureaucracy that makes the IRS look like a model of efficiency.
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