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NPI Numbers => NPI Numbers => : pollyrobin July 09, 2010, 07:50:29 PM

: NPI number for lay person owned health care clinic in Florida
: pollyrobin July 09, 2010, 07:50:29 PM
I have a doc who asked me to check out an NPI number. He was asked by a licensed health care clinic in Florida to reassign his benefits to Medicare. When I checked out the NPI TYPE 2 number it shows being a Single Specialty Group with license number of a health care
clinic. The clinic has no doctor ownership. It appears to me that this would be a group practice with doctor ownership NPI.  Can a lay
person owned clinic even get an NPI number or be enrolled in Medicare?
: Re: NPI number for lay person owned health care clinic in Florida
: Pay_My_Claims July 10, 2010, 08:55:58 AM
a non-medical provider can own a clinic and obtain an NPI, however they MUST have a medical director on staff.  ...all similar to a DME provider.
: Re: NPI number for lay person owned health care clinic in Florida
: pollyrobin July 10, 2010, 11:48:35 AM
Thanks for the info