How will Georgia Medicaid implement NPI?
Georgia Medicaid will comply with federal regulations and begin using the National Provider (NPI) as the provider identifier on all standard electronic transactions on or prior to May 23, 2007. The Medicaid Provider ID will continue to be used for all internal activities and reporting, and will still be used in external operational and system activities that are not standard transactions. A crosswalk will be built between current provider Medicaid IDs and NPI. In order to build this crosswalk in an effective and timely manner we have already begun collecting NPIs from providers. As part of this process we have asked all providers to submit their NPIs on a specific form where they match their NPI(s) to their current Medicaid Provider ID(s) and also provide the appropriate taxonomy code(s) for the NPI submitted. While we can encourage providers to obtain an NPI for each of their Medicaid Provider IDs we cannot require them to do so. Georgia Medicaid will be using a solution which will cr
