NPPES Healthcare Providers Database

**Overview**
The data package contains NPI related datasets. The NPI number of all the covered health care professionals, the deactivated NPI's and dfferent codes used within the NPI dataset

**Description**
This data package provides the NPI and deactivation date for the deactivated health care providers. The NPI is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. This data package also contains all of the FOIA-disclosable provider data in NPPES. It contains the fields identified in the NPPES Data Dissemination Notice and certain sub-fields related to those fields will be disclosed in the data set.

**Benefits**
- Useful for providers to know information of national provider identifier standard

**License Information**
The use of John Snow Labs datasets is free for personal and research purposes. For commercial use please subscribe to the [Data Library](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/) on John Snow Labs website. The subscription will allow you to use all John Snow Labs datasets and data packages for commercial purposes.

**Included Datasets**
- [Healthcare Providers Deactivated National Provider Identifier](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/healthcare-providers-deactivated-national-provider-identifier)
- This dataset contains the NPI and deactivation date for the deactivated health care providers.
The NPI is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. This dataset will assist users who are only interested in the deactivation information.
- [Healthcare Providers National Provider Identifier Data](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/healthcare-providers-national-provider-identifier-data)
- This dataset contains the Health Care Providers data. Each line in the dataset represents an NPI record.
The NPI is a unique identification number for covered health care providers.
- [NPI Other Name Reference File](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/npi-other-name-reference-file)
- This dataset contains additional other names associated with Type 2 NPIs provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
- [NPI To Medicare Crosswalk](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/npi-to-medicare-crosswalk)
- The National Provider Indetifier (NPI) became the national standard identifier in May 2007. One limitation of this dataset is that the provider had to include their other provider number on the NPI application in order for the license number to appear here.
- [Practice Location Reference File](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/practice-location-reference-file)
- This dataset shows all of the non-primary practice location reference file provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

**Data Engineering Overview**
**We deliver high-quality data**
- Each dataset goes through 3 levels of quality review
- 2 Manual reviews are done by domain experts
- Then, an automated set of 60+ validations enforces every datum matches metadata & defined constraints
- Data is normalized into one unified type system
- All dates, unites, codes, currencies look the same
- All null values are normalized to the same value
- All dataset and field names are SQL and Hive compliant
- Data and Metadata
- Data is available in both CSV and Apache Parquet format, optimized for high read performance on distributed Hadoop, Spark & MPP clusters
- Metadata is provided in the open Frictionless Data standard, and its every field is normalized & validated
- Data Updates
- Data updates support replace-on-update: outdated foreign keys are deprecated, not deleted

**Our data is curated and enriched by domain experts**

Each dataset is manually curated by our team of doctors, pharmacists, public health & medical billing experts:
- Field names, descriptions, and normalized values are chosen by people who actually understand their meaning
- Healthcare & life science experts add categories, search keywords, descriptions and more to each dataset
- Both manual and automated data enrichment supported for clinical codes, providers, drugs, and geo-locations
- The data is always kept up to date – even when the source requires manual effort to get updates
- Support for data subscribers is provided directly by the domain experts who curated the data sets
- Every data source’s license is manually verified to allow for royalty-free commercial use and redistribution.

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