Expanded Services at
the LSU School of Dentistry Library
Starting on Sunday, June 29, 2008, the LSU School of
Dentistry Library will be open the following hours:
Sunday – 1:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Monday
through Thursday – 8:00 a.m. –
10:00 p.m.
Friday – 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday – Closed
Dental health professionals are welcome to visit the library,
register as a library patron, and check out books. While in the library, you can also photocopy articles from
journals in the stacks. To print articles
from our online journals, you will need to purchase a pay-for-print card, sold
in values of $5.00 or $10.00. Each card
has a $1.00 service charge.
If you wish to order articles without coming to the library,
just register for Loansome Doc and then submit requests electronically through
PubMed. There are 3 steps in the process:
1.
Contact the dental library. We
will send you a form to fill out and return
to the LSUHSC library. You will then
receive a library ID (LIBID).
2.
With the LIBID, you are ready to register online for Loansome Doc.
3.
Go to PubMed at http://pubmed.gov,
search for your articles, and order them electronically from the dental
library.
For further information and important links, start with the
Loansome Doc home page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/loansomedoc/loansome_home.html.
Be sure to read the Loansome Doc Fact
Sheet for a detailed outline of the entire process. If you have any questions, please contact Julie Schiavo or Liz
Strother at the dental school library.
For more information about LSUSD library services or
resources, see our web site at http://www.lsusd.lsuhsc.edu/libr
or call us at (504) 941-8158. (Posted on 7/15/08)
WARNING: Calls from "Merchant Services" is NOT affiliated with the LDA endorsed company,
NOVA / ELAVON.
Alert!
NOVA / ELAVON is NOT updating their terminals. Someone is calling member
dentists as "Merchant Services" from phone number 866-559-9257 advising of a
processing and equipment upgrade. This is NOT a NOVA /ELAVON product or service
upgrade. Please be advised that this is a scam and this company is in no way
endorsed by the LDA or LDS. If you do what the company requests you will end up
on a new platform with a new rate and equipment to pay for that you do not need.
If you have any additional questions please call the LDA office at (800) 388-6642. (Posted in May 2008)
Attention All Louisiana Dental Medicaid Providers
Implementation Deadline for the National Provider Identifier
When the National Provider Identifier (NPI) is implemented, Medicaid
claims will not be processed if the NPI(s) is not registered
with Louisiana Medicaid,and you will not receive your Medicaid payment. The NPI implementation deadline was May 23, 2008.
Effective Immediately: All healthcare providers who do business with
LA Medicaid must provide their NPI in all transactions with Provider Enrollment,
such as enrolling in LA Medicaid, direct deposit change, and address change.
To maintain accurate and timely payment of medical claims, the National
Provider Identifier (NPI) number must be used on all claims beginning May 23,
2008. Providers should ensure that the NPI is indicated
appropriately on claim submissions to avoid payment denials.
It is necessary to register your NPI with Louisiana Medicaid as this information is not transmitted automatically from the
enumerator. If you have not registered your NPI(s), you may register
online at www.lamedicaid.com
in the secured provider area, or by calling 225-216-6400 for
assistance. For additional instructions regarding applying for and registering
your NPI, please review the November/December Provider Update for this
information.
This implementation may require system changes to your billing
software. Therefore, you should immediately contact your billing vendor or
billing agent to ensure your system reflects the necessary changes to add the
NPI. These changes
should be tested to prevent a delay in your Medicaid payment.
Applying for an NPI
To obtain an NPI, health care providers must submit an application in
one of two ways.
They may apply through an easy web-based
application process, at https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov, or
They may choose to prepare a paper
application and send it to the enumerator (Fox Systems). The paper application
can be downloaded from the NPPES (National Plan and Provider Enumeration System)
web site, or providers may contact the enumerator via the NPPES help line at
1-800-465-3203 (NPI Toll-Free) 1-800-692-2326 (NPI TTY) and request the paper
application be sent to them.
Recommendations for Enumeration
LA Medicaid will follow Medicare's enumeration recommendation which
says that providers should request a NPI for each of their legacy Medicaid ID
numbers. The primary reason for this recommendation is that it will assist LA
Medicaid in building the best possible cross-walk file from the NPI to the
current Medicaid ID number which will continue to be used for internal
processing.
One-to-One Registration:
LA Medicaid providers should use the web based application located on
the LA Medicaid web site, www.lamedicaid.com, to register their
NPI(s) with LA Medicaid. The application is accessible from the secured provider
area of this web site. You may enter this location of the web site by clicking
the Provider Login button located at the upper left side of the Home page. If
you have not used this area of the web site before, you will be prompted to
complete a short online registration process. Once signed in to the secured
area, providers will see an application link called NPI.
Alternatively, providers may choose to register their NPI using the NPI paper registration form instead of
the secured web application. The hard copy registration form is available for
download from the list of helpful web links. The completed paper form may be
faxed or mailed to Unisys as indicated on the form.
Unisys (Fiscal Agent for the Louisiana Department of Health and
Hospitals) will contact the registrant using the information provided on the
registration form if there is any problem during registration.
Other Registration:
If you plan to enumerate with the NPPES in any other way than a
one-to-one match (many-to-one or one-to-many) you may:
Use the NPI paper registration form, or
Contact the LA Medicaid NPI Assistance
Line at
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or (225) 216-6400 to discuss your NPI enumeration situation
and determine the best method for accommodating your circumstance.
Other Important Information
Attention Group
Practices: Group practices must register the NPI associated with the group Medicaid
ID number as well as the NPIs assigned to the individual practitioners within
the group. LA Medicaid must be able to properly identify
both the billing and servicing provider on claims. This means that both groups
and individuals must be users of the secured area of the provider website to
register their NPIs. If you are not a current user, you will need
register on-line as indicated above. As an alternative to
registering via the secured web application, group providers may contact the
Louisiana NPI Assistance Line above for details on how to register the group and
their individuals using a bulk registration process.
Attention Individual
Practitioners: Individually practicing dentists who obtained an individual NPI and a
business entity NPI for Medicare billing must register both NPIs with LA
Medicaid to accommodate crossover claims processing.
Transitioning to the NPI
For a successful NPI implementation, all LA Medicaid providers
must report their NPI(s) to Unisys. The final compliance date is May 22, 2008.
Providers who have not done so should immediately obtain an NPI,
register it with LA Medicaid and contact any billing or software vendor to allow
time for systems to be altered to accommodate the entry of the NPI (s).
If you have not requested your NPI(s) from the National Plan
and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) you must complete that process first
then return to the LA Medicaid NPI Registration application to register your
NPI(s) after you have received it.
Questions
regarding the LA Medicaid NPI implementation may be directed to the LA Medicaid
NPI Assistance Line at
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or (225) 216-6400.
(Posted April 2008)