Jan,

We have about 400 providers in our group. We store the SSN electronically on our 
physician master.

Betsy Clore
Wake Forest University Physicians

Jan Root wrote:

> Question:  Are there any large health care facilities folks on this list serve?  If 
>so, answer me this:  Do you currently collect/keep current the SSN/EIN of all your 
>physicians that you bill for?
>
> I'm curious.  If you're a large health care facility (or even a medium one) could 
>you reply to this email?  Thanks!
>
> Jan Root
>
> Kepa Zubeldia wrote:
>
> > Jonathan,
> >
> > The NM109 needs to have the attending physician TaxID/EIN or the SSN.
> > Then the UPIN is sent in the REF segment as secondary identifier.
> >
> > <gap analysis>
> > This means that you are going to have to collect the tax ID or SSN
> > numbers for the attending physicians, not just the UPIN.
> > </gap analysis>
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> >
> > Kepa
> >
> > Jonathan Fox wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a question...
> > >
> > > On page 323 of the 837 Institutional Guide, the only valid Identification Code 
>Qualifiers are:
> > >
> > > 24 - Employer's Identification Number
> > > 34 - Social Security Number
> > > XX - NPI (when available)
> > >
> > > The note stated above the valid qualifiers indicates that Medicare assigns the 
>UPIN to the provider for identification purposes and it looks like the intention is 
>to use the UPIN with a 24 Qualifier and the UPIN number as the code.
> > > Assuming that Employer Identification Number is equivalent to a provider's tax 
>ID, it would seem that the UPIN number is not a compliant code to submit in NM109.   
>Is this compliant?
> > > It would be easier for us to accept UPIN in this section as well if possible 
>since tax ID is not always known, but we do not want to promote non-compliance with 
>our providers.  How are other people handling this?
> > >
> > > Jonathan Fox
> > > eCommerce Analyst
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