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ihlr-25463	Singer, Anthony	Teamwork Makes the Scheme Work: State Licensure Verification for National Provider Identifier Applicants	2021	24	.pdf	application/pdf	12148	562	51	TEAMWORK MAKES THE SCHEME WORK 421 National Provider System (“NPS”)—ultimately expanded to encompass providers not enrolled in Medicare.25 These efforts all occurred prior to the enactment of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), which required that the HHS Secretary “adopt standards providing for a standard unique health identifier for each individual, employer, health plan, and health care provider for use in the health care system,” taking into account “multiple uses for identifiers and multiple locations and specialty classifications for health care providers.”26 HIPAA’s “standard unique health identifier” requirement was one part of a broader goal of “administrative simplification,” wherein the law “encourage[d] the development of a health information system through the establishment of standards and requirements for the electronic transmission of certain health information. Over the course of four years, Williams had applied for and acquired at least twenty National Provider Identifiers (“NPIs”) from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”).2 The NPI is a unique, ten- digit identification number that health care providers and health plans “must use . . .	cache/ihlr-25463.pdf	txt/ihlr-25463.txt