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.
Frequently Asked Questions regarding National Provider Identifier (NPI) Registration QUESTION 1: What is the National Provider Identifier (NPI)? ANSWER: The NPI is a unique identification number for health care providers that will be used by all health plans in all standard transactions. The NPI is all numeric and is 10 positions in length: the first nine positions are the identifier and the last position is a check digit. The check digit helps detect invalid NPIs. There is no embedded intelligence in the NPI that identifies the type of health care provider. The Department for Medicaid Services (DMS)/KY Medicaid requires the NPI on all claims received May 23, 2008 and after. QUESTION 2: What is a taxonomy code?