Information for Physicians

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) mandated that the Secretary of Health and Human Services adopt a standard unique health identifier for health care providers. On January 23, 2004, the Secretary published a Final Rule that adopted the National Provider Identifier (NPI) as this identifier.

All HIPAA covered health care providers, whether they are individuals or organizations, must obtain an NPI for use to identify themselves in HIPAA-standard transactions, replacing health care provider identifiers in use today in HIPAA standard transactions. Once enumerated, a provider's NPI will not change. The NPI is a permanent identifier, assigned for life, remaining with the provider regardless of job or location changes. An NPI is a unique 10 digit identifier assigned to health care providers and organizations. The NPI will not have any embedded intelligence, nor will it replace the tax identification number (TIN), which is an IRS requirement.

HIPAA covered entities such as providers completing electronic transactions, health care clearinghouses, and large health plans, must use only the NPI to identify covered health care providers in standard transactions by May 23, 2007.

The application for an NPI takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. There are three ways to apply for an NPI:

• Complete the application online at https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov
• Download a paper copy at https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov
• Call Call1-800-465-3203 to request a copy of the application

Having an NPI will not: ensure that the provider is licensed or credentialed; guarantee payment by a health plan; enroll a provider in a health plan; turn a provider into a covered entity; and require a provider to conduct HIPAA transactions.

Once you have obtained both your practice and individual NPI, you must share this with Shawnee Mission Health's NPI delegate to ensure your billing is not affected. Please fax your NPI number to the Medical Staff Office at Call913-676-2676. If you have any questions, please contact the Medical Staff office at Call913-676-2098.

Other resources include:

1. https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand/index.html
2. [email protected]
3. NPI customer service phone number, Call1-800-465-3203
4. Mailing Address:
   NPI Enumerator
   P.O. Box 6059
   Fargo, ND 58108-6059

Quality Medical Information for Effective Patient Care in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri

Founded in 1978, the AdventHealth Shawnee Mission Medical Library represents a contemporary marriage of modern medicine with today’s information gathering technologies in a focus on effective patient care.

The Medical Library primarily services the Medical Staff, the Nursing Staff and the Administrative Staff of AdventHealth Shawnee Mission. It is also available to medical personnel throughout the United States and other countries through our OCLC and DOCLINE connections. While circulation privileges are limited to the AdventHealth Shawnee Mission health care community, the public is welcome to utilize the in-house services of the Medical Library.

Holdings
In addition to almost 10,000 books on medical and related topics, the library maintains subscriptions to over 3,900 journals.

Hours
Monday to Thursday: 8 am to 5 pm
Friday: 8 am to 4:30 pm

Staff
Melody Senecal, Medical Librarian
Jeanne Bodnar, Library/Medical Education Coordinator

Phone and Fax
Call913-676-2101 Main Office number
Call913-676-2097 Medical Education
Call913-676-2103 Interlibrary Loan
Call913-676-2106 Fax

Access
Access to the collection is via EOS Web Express software. This internet system provides searching capacity for the entire collection. In addition it provides automated check in/out, cataloging, and collection control.

Literature Searches
The backbone of library operations is the electronic search for important medical information. In this activity, the premier tool is the electronic database. The library utilizes the following:

• MEDLINE via the National Library of Medicine
• OVID with 274 full text journals
• ClinicalKey with full text to over 500 medical journals and over 1000 medical reference books
• CINAHL
• eMedicine
• EBSCOhost full text databases and DynaMed
• Nursing & Allied Health Collection: Basic
• Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic
• Health Business
• Psychology & Behavioral Science Collection

Inter-Library Loan
The library makes use of the Inter-Library Loan opportunities made available by the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and DOCLINE from the National Library of Medicine.

Continuing Education
The continuing education of the SMH medical and nursing staff is an area of prime concern of the Medical Library.
To this end the library maintains audio and video collections for self-directed instruction.

Document Delivery
Rapid transmission of both search results and journal articles is available via, email, Ariel, fax and regular mail.

On-going Medical Education Opportunities

MKSAP

Every Friday 7:30 to 8:30 am

MKSAP 19 - Nephrology

Moderators: Achal Desai, MD; Hemender Vats, MD; Robert Golder, MD

June 16: Start on MKSAP question #44 (This will be a virtual and in-person meeting.)

AdventHealth Shawnee Mission is accredited by the Colorado Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians. AdventHealth Shawnee Mission designates this live activity for a maximum of one AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

To access the physician portal, visit doc.adventhealth.com.