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Incorporation of the National Provider Identifier (NPI) into the National Supplier Clearinghouse (NSC) Enrollment System and Related Instructions

The purpose of this change request is to instruct the ViPS Medicare System (VMS) to accept the NPI in the PECOS required daily (business days) file transmission to VMS, house the NPI in VMS and use the NPI in the DMEPOS claims processing system upon implementation of PECOS Rel. 7.1. In addition, this change request instructs PECOS to develop and perform a one-time extract to submit NPI data, including sufficient identifying information to link the NPI data to the DMEPOS supplier, for NPICS through VMS by the implementation date.

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Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

Issue Date: July 22, 2010

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