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Order and Referring Medicare Data | CMS


Data Dissmenination | CMS
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You can subscribe to the AWS Data Exchange product utilizing the automation featured in this repository by visiting

Main Overview
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This release provides information of medical specialists, physicians and other healthcare professionals who can be consulted by those in the Medicare program released by
the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
This release provides information of NPPES health care providers.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid provide substantial amounts of data to
the public about their programs, various health care topics, and care
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#### Data Source

This resource is presented in both the JSON and CSV formats. The
included dataset contains the following columns:
included zip download contains the following files:

- an endpoint file for Type 1 and 2 NPIs
- NPI data file
- other names file for NPI type 2s which have other names associated with them
- code values
- a read me
- a practice location(pl) file which contains all the non-primary pl for for type 1 and 2 NPIs


`"npi", "last_name", "first_name", "partb", "dme", "hha", "pmd"`

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