When adding a new Referring Doctor

1. Be sure �Entity Type� is either Male or Female.� Non-Person will cause rejections in electronic claims.
2. Do NOT put in a title for your provider (i.e. MD or DO).
3. Be sure NOT to put erroneous characters in your address lines (i.e. no �#� �~� �$� �%� �^�) these will cause rejections in electronic claims.
4. �Provider ID� is a field required by PPM in order to save the new referring doctor.� Put a space in this field to fill this requirement.� Existing doctors will already have a UPIN #, this is fine, going forward there will not be UPIN #�s published for providers.
5. If you have a UPIN # in the Provider ID be sure to set the �ID Qualifier� to 1G.
6. If you put a space in the Provider ID field, �ID Qualifier� should be blank.�
7. Be sure to fill in �NPI� and �Taxonomy� for each new referring doctor.� Adding an NPI number and no Taxonomy code will cause rejections in electronic claims.