The NPI fulfills a requirement of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). It also replaces all provider identifier numbers assigned by payers and is used by health care professionals.
Philistine, one of a people of Aegean origin who settled on the southern coast of Palestine in the 12th century bce, about the time of the arrival of the Israelites.
The Phoenician People. The Phoenicians were a seafaring trading company who called themselves Canaanites, meaning merchant, which describes the Phoenicians very well. T he Canaanite civilization began to develop in the modern day land which is Lebanon, parts of Syria and Israel, circa 3000 B.C.he Phoenicians traded with the Greeks, and shared the alphabet with them. The original Phoenician alphabet had 22 letters, and was adopted by the Greeks, who added four letters, all 26 of which we use today.