NPI Testing To NPI Production Presented by Gretchen Beicher UW Medical Foundation and Laurie Burckhardt WPS September 21, 2007

University of Wisconsin Medical Foundation 1,000 + Medical School Faculty Physicians 300 Midlevel Providers 51 UW Health clinical practice locations (exclusive of outreach) 837 = 84% majority 837P = 266K clm/mo FQHC 837I Dental 837D 835 = 88.9% of payments posted

 WHAT did we do?  HOW did we do it?  OPPORTUNITIES we found  WHERE WE ARE NOW

CLEAN YOUR OWN HOUSE FIRST  TEST ENVIRONMENT = PRODUCTION  OPPORTUNITIES Code modifications Legacy Dual Use NPI Only Modified NPI Only for rendering but not referring (Dissemination)

Edit modifications at all provider levels The FAV FIVE 1.FEDERAL TAX ID OR BILLING PROVIDER'S NPI/SSN ARE MISSING 2.RENDERING PROVIDER TAX ID/NPI MISSING OR INVALID 3.SUPERVISING PROVIDER NPI/TAX ID MISSING OR INVALID 4.TAX ID/NPI MISSING OR INVALID 5.REFERRING PROVIDER NPI/TAX ID OR SSN IS MISSING

Sync Enroll DB to PMS MF NPI verifications – Luhn algorithm MF Provider Specialty clean up Taxonomy coordination (Enroll DB v. MF) POS MF clean up

 Gap Analysis Top 20  Contracted/Enrollment  Biggest Book  Document Approach Now we are ready………. maybe??

COMMUNICATION With Payors  Who wants and can test?  HOW?  OPPORTUNITIES

COMMUNICATION  Based on multiple factors Gap Analysis Readiness Willingness Relationship Communication Knowledge

HOW?  How and What are we testing? NPI only or Dual Use or Modified version  Produce File? Return Response?  Document Outcome  Set date(s)

 Document

Are we ready? Target Date: May 23, 2007

 May 18 th – what happened?  UWMF contacted by five payors Please test dual Please test NPI only Please send dual without testing Please send NPI only without testing Please send NPI only with testing completed

Opportunities -- Payor 1 – Dual Use  Test – Yes Payor Provider environment differences  Dual Use – 03/14/07 Pre-process reports  MESSAGES, MESSAGES, MESSAGES!! Cross walk Ref MDs

 M343 rendering provider PIN / NPI combination in loop 2310B does not exist in Medicare's crosswalk.  M340 - This error indicates that the billing provider PIN (Group Number) / NPI combination in loop 2010AA does not exist in Medicare's crosswalk  M342 - Referring provider NPI does not exist in Medicare's crosswalk. This edit was turned off shortly after it was turned on.  M329 - The NPI is invalid - based on the Luhn algorithm.

 Effective August 27, 2007, for Minnesota and Wisconsin and September 4, 2007, for Illinois and Michigan, WPS Medicare will begin editing the NPI/legacy ID combinations for validity against the NPI crosswalk file. Where a match cannot be located on the crosswalk, claims will be rejected or returned to the provider.

 Below are the dates which NPI edits will be turned to delete.

Recommendations for providers:  Begin dual strategy immediately!  Pay close attention to your prepass reports.  Send NPI only on a small percentage of claims (recommended 25 claims). Track claims with NPI throughout the claim process (e.g. compare to your remittance).  If results are as you expected, increase your volume of NPI only claims.

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Opportunities Payor 1 – NPI Only  May 4, 2007 Test file sent Results reviewed with payor  May 9, 2007 NPI ONLY!!!! UWMF Timing considerations

Real Opportunity Awaits  NPI is not only an IT/IS function or number  Payor 1 communication May 11, 2007  What is the difference between EDI and business reality?  Back to Dual Use May 12, 2007 What happened here?

I stole: “NPI Controlled Production Testing” Credit to Suzanne  Cow NPI Summit – June 22, 2007 What is it??

 NPI Controlled Production Testing Portion of Production File  Build Phase 1 5 claims/3000 claims Phase 2 ~790 claims/3000 claims Phase 3 Full NPI ONLY = August 30, 2007 Consider timing and payment floor for all phases

NPI Controlled Production Testing  Phase 1 results 5 claims/3000 claims sent June 25, 2007 All Claims adjudicated according to standard on July 12, 2007

NPI Controlled Production Testing  Phase claims/3000 claims (790+)  August 10, 2007 Three options  Build from scratch  Limit file size and delay other claims  Process when end users on system Timing Medicaid crossover payments were received  September 5, 2007

NPI Only Controlled Production Testing  Phase 3 NPI ONLY  Target Late August 2007  NPI ONLY August 30, 2007

NPI – ARE YOU USING IT?  YES!!

NPI Testing To NPI Production QUESTIONS??