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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 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
settings. If you are interested in learning more about datasets released
by the CMS, please visit the [CMS Data homepage](https://data.cms.gov/).

#### Data Source

This resource is presented in both the JSON and CSV formats. The
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



More Information
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- Source - [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
(CMS)](https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Administrative-Simplification/NationalProvIdentStand/DataDissemination)
- [CMS Data Homepage](https://data.cms.gov/)
- [Terms of Use](https://www.usa.gov/government-works)
- Frequency: Weekly
- Formats: CSV, JSON

Contact Details
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- If you find any issues or have enhancements with this product, open
up a GitHub
[issue](https://github.com/rearc-data/Data-Dissmenination-CMS/issues)
and we will gladly take a look at it. Better yet, submit a pull
request. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated :heart:.
- If you are interested in any other open datasets, please create a
request on our project board
[here](https://github.com/rearc-data/covid-datasets-aws-data-exchange/projects/1).
- If you have questions about this source data, please send the
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services an email at [email protected].
- If you have any other questions or feedback, send us an email at
[email protected].

About Rearc
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Rearc is a cloud, software and services company. We believe that
empowering engineers drives innovation. Cloud-native architectures,
modern software and data practices, and the ability to safely experiment
can enable engineers to realize their full potential. We have partnered
with several enterprises and startups to help them achieve agility. Our
approach is simple — empower engineers with the best tools possible to
make an impact within their industry.

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