The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) established a standard National Provider Identifier (NPI) for individuals and organizations that deliver medical services. Not only are physicians and other health care providers required to utilize their own NPI when submitting claims, they must also enter the NPIs of other providers, such as when a physician is making or receiving patient referrals.

The Colorado medical societies received numerous requests from members and their staffs for assistance in acting as a repository of NPI information. In response the Colorado NPI Repository, a secure database available exclusively to medical society members and their staff, was developed.

The database is searchable by physician name, practice name, specialty, city or zip code. It is maintained in a secure, HIPAA compliant repository by Managed Care Advisory Group (MCAG), our technology partner for this project. We are excited to provide this benefit to our members as part of our ongoing effort to support you in meeting the challenges faced by today’s medical practices.

To avoid liability issues and assure that we meet the guidelines for sharing NPI numbers we can only include society members in this registry. If you do not find a name you need, encourage that non-member colleague to join.

The value of this statewide database is the ease by which physician practices can obtain the necessary NPI data for any physician with whom they have a professional relationship across the state of Colorado.

The strength of the database is dependent on the number of Colorado physicians who participate by providing their NPI information. If you find a name but there is no corresponding NPI number for your colleague actively encourage him or her to enter the information.

Please feel free to contact MCAG Customer Support at 1-800-355-0466, press 1 for customer service, if you have problems or questions regarding your physicians’ records, password creation, or database log-in issues. A customer service representative will be happy to assist you.

Medical society partners working for you:

» Arapahoe-Douglas-Elbert Medical Society

» Aurora-Adams County Medical Society

» Boulder County Medical Society

» Clear Creek Valley Medical Society

» Colorado Medical Society

» Denver Medical Society

» El Paso County Medical Society

» Larimer County Medical Society

» Pueblo County Medical Society

» Weld County Medical Society

» Western Slope Medical Societies