537 Health Care Financing Administration National Provider Identifier

SIMPLE DATA ELEMENT/CODE REFERENCES
128/HPI

SOURCE
National Provider System

AVAILABLE FROM
Health Care Financing Administration
Office of Information Services
Security and Standards Group
Director, Division of Health Care Information Systems
7500 Security Boulevard
Baltimore, MD 21244-1850

ABSTRACT
The Health Care Financing Administration is developing the National Provider Identifiers, which is proposed as the standard unique identifier for each health care provider under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.