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 National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Administrative Simplification Standard.PI Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). NPI FAQs are posted on the CMS website and continue to be updated as new information is available. To view these FAQs, see the Related Links Inside CMS section below. To find the latest FAQs, click on the arrows next to Date Updated.