tmccormi wrote on Monday, February 21, 2011:
This is from a Texas Medicare payor:
3e|HIPAA|R|0x3939418|Invalid ID for Referring Provider Secondary
Identification : only National Provider ID (NPI) is allowed after it is
mandated for use. Invalid data: 1G|2310A|REF|1||||4010A1|
Medicare is moving away from UPIN to requiring NPI across the board, in gen_x12_837.inc.php at lines 457 to 463 is this code:
if ($claim->referrerUPIN()) {
++$edicount;
$out .= "REF" . // Referring Provider Secondary Identification
"*1G" .
"*" . $claim->referrerUPIN() .
"~\n";
}
Should this be changed to just use the NPI now or is there something more fuzzy needed?
-Tony