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National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Downloadable File

Description

The National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) downloadable file (also referred to as the NPI Downloadable File) contains FOIA-disclosable NPPES health care provider data for health care providers who have been assigned National Provider Identifiers (NPIs). In accordance with the NPPES Data Dissemination Notice, each month CMS will create a single zipped file that will contain (1) a data file containing all of the FOIA-disclosable health care provider data in NPPES as of a certain date in the month, (2) a Read Me File describing the information in the data file, (3) a Header File containing the format of the data file, and (4) a Code Values document listing the descriptions for all of the codes found in the data file. It is downloadable by users with the necessary technical expertise from http://nppes.viva-it.com/NPI_Files.html on the CMS website. Each month, CMS replaces the previous month's file; only one file is available for downloading at any given time. Visit http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalProvIdentStand/06a_DataDissemination.asp on the CMS website to learn more.

General Information

Legal Information

This dataset has been created by US Government which means it is required to be in the public domain. However US copyright law only allows open access by US citizens, we have assumed the data is equivalently licensed as CC0 for the rest of the world as this is in the spirit of the US Government’s Open Data policy.

  • The rights statement is at

    http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/national-plan-and-provider-enumeration-system-nppes-downloadable-file Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Outside the US, this data is available under

    Creative Commons CCZero Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • There are

    yes, and the rights are all held by the same person or organisation Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The content is available under

    Creative Commons CCZero Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The rights statement includes data about

    its data licence Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • This data contains

    no data about individuals Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

Practical Information

  • The data appears in this collection

    http://catalog.data.gov/organization/hhs-gov Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The accuracy or relevance of this data will

    go out of date but it is timestamped Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The data is

    backed up offsite Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

Technical Information

Social Information

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    title Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    description Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    identifier Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    landing page Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    publisher Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    keyword(s) or tag(s) Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    distribution(s) Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    release date Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    modification date Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    temporal coverage Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation includes machine-readable data for

    language Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    release date Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    a URL to access the data Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    a URL to download the dataset Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • The documentation about each distribution includes machine-readable data for

    type of download media Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Find out how to contact someone about this data at

    http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/national-plan-and-provider-enumeration-system-nppes-downloadable-file Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know

  • Find out how to suggest improvements to publication at

    http://www.data.gov/issue/?media_url=http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/national-plan-and-provider-enumeration-system-nppes-downloadable-file Do you think this data is incorrect? Let us know