My program took care of that for all of the incoming interns (and it would be the personal application). But, you need to take responsibility of changing / updating it as you move on.
That's my understanding. But, if you opened up your own private practice office, then you'd apply for an organizational one. They need to be able to enumerate all professionals (in a variety of disciplines, not just physicians), but they also want to track the organizations (which would include any business or clinic, like even the non-profits). I'm not 100% sure if individual departments are separately enumerated (I presume that the hospital would have a single number rather than separate ones for each department, but that should be easy to check).
What??? I did it online 2 weeks ago and still no email. I called them and gave them my tracking number and they said it could take up to 27 days for them to process it.
I got mine in ~2 minutes after I submitted. Check your email. The subject that contained the number was "National Provider Identifier". The actual number was hidden in the middle of all the text.
They never sent me any emails. Maybe I should make a new account and submit again...
Spam folder?
I couldn't make a new account with the same SSN. I looked everywhere in my email and all I found was this email I got after I registered:
Yes, I created the account first and then I did the NPI application via my account profile. I checked the NPI public registry and it said there was no NPI number associated with my account. I clicked the link to register and it says my application status is still pending. I called NPI a few days ago to ask what's up and the lady said my NPI application was received and that it's taking 14-27 days to process the applications. I'll try calling again tomorrow because I literally can't do anything else. It won't let me access my current application and it won't let me create a new account.
I'm in the same boat. I also called and was told the same thing...so at least we're both waiting together... 🙁
This is really weird! Good luck to you both! I'm questioning if my NPI is real . Well it's in the registry .. It certainly was an automated kind of process for me so apparently there may be cases where it generates right away and else it needs more elaborate review like someone looking at the application etc.
