The guillotine is a machine used to execute people by decapitation (chopping off their heads). A guillotine is made of a heavy blade attached to a rack, which moves up and down on a vertical frame. When the rack is let go, it will fall down and the blade will cut the convict's head off.
A national producer number, or NPN, is a tool to protect individual insurance agents and agencies from identity theft and fraudulent representations made to the National Insurance Producer Registry, or NIPR.
The NPI has replaced the UPIN (Unique Provider Identification Number) as the required identifier for all Medicare services, including health insurance claims. NPIdb allows you to perform NPI Lookups of doctors & various medical entities for their unique NPI number. The information found on NPIdb is produced by the NPI Registry and provided in accordance with the Data Dissemination Notice. The information found on NPIdb.org is provided AS IS and in accordance with the NPPES Data Dissemination Notice, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and e-FOIA ammendments.