RE: Provider Taxonomy Code

[Jim Whicker]

Some payers indicated a need to know what type of provider it was that was sending the claim.  In the past, they used home grown codes to indicate if it was, for example, an RN, a home health aid, etc. who saw the patient.   When local codes go away, the provider number will be the only way to be able to determine that information unless a taxonomy code is used.   As a provider, the taxonomy code makes me nervous - just because of the number of people I interact with who have no clue as to what it is and how to use it.  I would have hoped that the provider number would mean something in the payer's system to identify what they needed to process the claim.  I guess we'll  have to see what happens when the NPI becomes a reality. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/21/02 03:31PM >>> I have had a rumor floating around that the taxonomy codes will be able to address the rates on the contract if there was the local coding system used previously and now changed to the standard coding system. And this was because they could then keep the rates linked to the provider's contract. Or, as a payor, what will be the "link" that will keep the same rates and change coding systems? -----Original Message----- From: Howeth, Teresa [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:46 AM To: ' [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: Provider Taxonomy Code I work for a Payor and we are not requiring the Taxonomy Codes today or in the future. However, we are modifying our system to handle the taxonomy code if it is passed in the 837 record. Teresa Howeth, Business Analyst Claim Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] UICI http://www.uiciinsctr.com 817-255-3338 Office > -----Original Message----- > From:Kirk-Detberner, Maureen [ SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent:Thursday, March 21, 2002 12:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Provider Taxonomy Code > > I work for an Academic Medical Center. I would like to know what others > are > doing with the Taxonomy Code issue. Are you assuming that the Taxonomy > Codes will become situational and doing nothing? Are you contacting your > payors to see if they will be requiring Taxonomy Codes? Or are you > building > the Taxonomy Codes in your systems without waiting to see what happens > with > the Addenda? > > > Maureen Kirk-Detberner > > > > ********************************************************************** > To be removed from this list, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request. ********************************************************************** To be removed from this list, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that it may take up to 72 hours to process your request.