The Provider Data Sources (PDS)™
Reference Guide
Free and Fee-based Data on U.S. Physicians, Hospitals, Clinics, Nurses, Dentists, Mental Health Professionals, and all other U.S. Healthcare Provider Specialties and Facility Types
The PDS, created and maintained by CarePrecise research staff, is sortable by Category and Free or Fee columns, and may be searched using your browser's CTRL-F (find in page) feature.
The guide lists both free and fee-based resources that contain information on all types of U.S. healthcare practitioners and organizations. Our research team accepts submissions for additions to the guide, reviewed for quality, pertinence, and value of content.
For a listing of resources not specifically related to data sources, visit the U.S. Healthcare Administration & Information Resources page...
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| Category ⇅ | Resource Link ⇅ | Description | More Information | Source ⇅ | Free or Fee ⇅ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physicians | Counts by Specialty and State | Counts of U.S. physicians by specialty. To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature. | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Physicians | Order and Referring Report | All physicians and non-physician practitioners who are legally eligible to order and refer in the Medicare program and who have current enrollment records in Medicare. | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | Maintained and updated monthly by CMS. | Free |
| Physicians | Physician Office Visit Cost Data | Datasets extracted from Medicare.gov’s Physician office visit costs, including regional pricing for new office visits, established office visits, and subcategories of ultrasounds, X-rays, MRI, CT scans, and mammography. | Maintained and updated by CMS. | Free | |
| Physicians | List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) | (See details under then General category.) | Maintained and updated monthly by CMS OIG. | Free | |
| Physicians | Physician Procedures by HCPCS/CPT Codes | Counts of office visits and medical procedures performed by each U.S. physician. | Reported annually by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), with proprietary codes, property of the American Medical Association | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). | Limited |
| Physicians | Doctors and clinicians datasets | Data on doctors, clinicians, and groups currently listed on Medicare Care Compare. | Most data may be used freely, with the exception of annual HCPCS procedure volumes data. | Maintaned and update monthly by CMS. | Limited |
| Physicians | Physicians and Other Clinicians Geography and Service data | Information on services and procedures provided to Original Medicare (fee-for-service) Part B (Medical Insurance) beneficiaries by physicians and other healthcare professionals; aggregated by geography and service. | Most data may be used freely, with the exception of annual HCPCS procedure volumes data. | Maintaned and updated annually by CMS. | Limited |
| Physicians | Counts of DME orders written by each U.S. physician by HCPCS/CPT Codes | Counts of Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Devices and Supplies orders by provider and service. | Reported annually by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). | Free |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Authoritative Hospital Database | 50,000+ U.S. hospitals and medical facilities, address, phone, fax, bed count, number oe employees, etc. | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | Multiple datasets maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). | Fee-based |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Ownership | Ownership information on all RHCs currently enrolled in Medicare. Data includes information such as owner name, owner type, owner address and ownership effective date. | Data Dictionary Data Guidance |
Maintained and updated quarterly by CMS | Free |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) Enrollments | Enrollment information on FQHCs currently enrolled in Medicare. Data includes FQHC's legal business name, DBA name, organization type, and address. | Data dictionary | Multiple datasets maintained by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). | Free |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Services provided by hospital and non-hospital medical facilities. | Data Dictionary | Maintained and updated quarterly by CMS | Free | |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Home Healthcare Agency Data | A list of all Home Health Agencies that have been registered with Medicare. The list includes addresses, phone numbers, and quality measure ratings for each agency. | Maintained and updated by CMS | Free | |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Dialysis Facility Data | A list of all dialysis facilities registered with Medicare that includes addresses and phone numbers, as well as services and quality of care provided. | Maintained and updated by CMS | Free | |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Provider Data | A list of all VHA hospitals. | Maintained and updated by CMS | Free | |
| Hospital/Medical Facility | Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) | elevant extracts are included in the CarePrecise Authoritative Hospital Database. | Maintained and updated by CMS | Free | |
| Nurses | Counts of Physician Assistants/ Advanced Practice Nurses (PA/APN) by specialty and state. | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "PA/APN" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Nurses | Email addresses for Physician Assistants (PA) and Advanced Practice Nurses (APN) | By U.S. nurse specialty, verified, updated monthly | Compiled and re-verified monthly by CarePrecise, per-email pricing based on order volume. | CarePrecise Preferred Email Database, compiled from medical journal subscription lists, societies, conferences, federal data, and proprietary vendors | Fee-based |
| Dental | Counts of dentists by specialty and state | Counts of U.S. dentists by standard Provider Taxonomy Code. To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Dentist" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Dental | Dental Industry Data | Dentist workforce, dental practice research, wage and job reports, dental care utilization, more. | American Dental Association | Limited | |
| Dental | Dental Care Market | Data reports, journal articles, research briefs | American Dental Association | Limited | |
| Dental | Dental Workforce Data | ADA Health Policy Institute findings on dental care utilization and expenditures across the U.S. | American Dental Association | Limited | |
| Eye/Vision Care | American Optometric Association Marketplace | Billing codes and other dental industry resources. | American Optometric Association | Fee-based | |
| Eye/Vision Care | Counts of Eye and vision care providers by specialty and state | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Eye/Vision" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Home Health | Home health services datasets | Data on U.S. Medicare-certified home health agencies and the quality of care provided. | Maintained and updated monthly by CMS. | Free | |
| Hospice | Hospice care datasets | Listings of organizations and data about the quality of care provided by U.S. hospice agencies. | Maintained and updated monthly by CMS. | Free | |
| Technologists | Counts of Technologists by specialty and state. | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Technolo" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Medical Therapists | Counts of Medical Therapists by specialty and state | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Therapist" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Mental Health | Counts of Behavioral and Social Services professionals by specialty and state | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Behav" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| General | State Health Departments | A listing of U.S. state health departments. | U.S. state healthcare departments may be contacted for sanction information on healthcare providers, as well as information on board certifications, and application information on state certification. | Maintained by CarePrecise. | Free |
| General | State Healthcare Provider Databases | State-by-state complete databases of HIPAA-covered healthcare providers. | Monthly updated state provider data is compiled into datasets that include the data in both relational database format and CSV/Excel format | Maintained and updated monthly by CarePrecise, based on multiple CMS data sources. | Free |
| General | National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES) | All active and deactivated HIPAA-covered U.S. healthcare providers, as contained in the National Provider Identifier (NPI) Registry. | The full CSV file exceeds 9GB, with too many rows (8 million+) for use in Microsoft Excel or other spreadsheet software, and too many columns (300+) for import into Microsoft Access. CarePrecise creates a version that includes all of the data in a relational database format that can be used immediately in Access or imported into a SQL database. | Maintained and updated weekly by CMS. | Free |
| General | Email Addresses for U.S. Healthcare Providers | Focused primarily on email for clinicians, re-verified monthly. Priced by volume of purchase (number of email addresses). | Physicians, mental health professionals, podiatrists, physician assistants, nurses, dentists, optometrists, physical and occupational therapists, pharmacists, speech and hearing clinicians, medical students and other allied healthcare professionals. | Maintained and updated monthly by CarePrecise. | Fee-based |
| General | List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) | List of those persons and organizations who are barred from billing all Federal healthcare programs due to an infraction. All CarePrecise clinician datasets include the indicator ("Warning") and the reason code. | The Medicare OIG has the authority to exclude individuals and entities from Federally funded health care programs pursuant to section 1128 of the Social Security Act, and from Medicare and State health care programs under section 1156 of the Act. Data dictionary | Maintained and updated monthly by CMS OIG. | Free |
| General | Medical Equipment Suppliers | A list of Suppliers that indicates the supplies carried at that location and the supplier's Medicare participation status. | Data dictionary | Maintained and updated monthly by CarePrecise. | Fee-based |
| General | Crosswalk: Medicare Provider Taxonomy to Medicare Specialty Code | The Medicare Provider and Supplier Taxonomy Crosswalk dataset lists the providers and suppliers eligible to enroll in Medicare programs with the proper healthcare provider taxonomy code. | Data includes the Medicare speciality codes, if available, provider/supplier type description, taxonomy code, and the taxonomy description. Clean machine-readable crosswalk Footnotes |
Maintained by CMS, normalized by CarePrecise. | Free |
| Chiropractic | Counts of Chiropractors by specialty and state | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Chiro" | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |
| Dietitians | Counts of Dietitians/Nutritionists by specialty and state | To search by state, start here and select the state, and use the Search Page feature to search for "Diet/Nutr | Compiled monthly by CarePrecise. | CarePrecise Complete Database, based on the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System database (NPPES). | Free |