Find Your NPI: A Comprehensive Guide for Healthcare Providers

An NPI, or "National Provider Identifier," is a code used to identify individual health care providers in the United States. According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), National Provider Identifiers are used "to uniquely identify a health care provider in standard transactions, such as health care claims."
Identifying your NPI, whether you are an individual health care provider or part of an organizational provider, is a simple process of searching the public NPI records database that the CMS provides online.

Instructions

• 1

  Go to the NPI Registry Search page, which is run by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (see Reference).

• 2

  Click the "Search for an Individual Provider" or the "Search for an Organizational Provider" link at the bottom of the page, depending on which one you are searching for.

• 3

  Fill out the information (name, street address, city and state, etc.) for the provider. Although only one field has to be filled out to perform a search, the more information you provide, the more accurate your search will be.

• 4

  Identify the provider in the supplied list. Its NPI is in the left-hand column.