RACmonitor March 29, 2022
After nearly two decades, passage of a National Provider Identifier remains elusive.
Since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed and signed in 1996, a National Provider Identifier and many of the law’s transactions and code set standards have been successfully implemented, and now have been in use for years. However, efforts to implement another type of identifier found in the act, a National Patient Identifier, have continued to be frustrated by Congress blocking any funding from being put towards it.
For the last two and half decades, Section 510 of the Department of Labor/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) appropriations bill has constituted a longstanding ban prohibiting the use of federal funds in developing...
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