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CarePrecise Access Complete^™ (CPAC)
Healthcare Provider Database

SUMMARY: CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC) offers the complete 6 million record U.S. HIPAA-covered healthcare provider community—all linked by NPI number—up to 400 discrete data points in each provider record, updated monthly. The complete NPPES database, enhanced with additional data, is ready to use on ordinary office computers in Microsoft Access. Most recent update January 21, 2020 .

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Now you can work with the complete U.S. healthcare provider database right on your own computer. Affordably.

CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC) makes the complete U.S. healthcare provider database accessible on your desktop. CPAC contains more information about all of the more than 6 million U.S. healthcare provider records than any other commercially available database, except for our own more extensive CPAC/EPGH bundle.

Starting at $399

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Download all 6 million U.S. healthcare providers —
physicians, dentists, hospitals, practice groups, pharmacies...
and access them in ordinary office software.

Used across the industry, by health plans, governments and federal law enforcement, CarePrecise offers the NPPES NPI data as a Microsoft Access® database. It is the complete list of all HIPAA-covered U.S. physicians, hospitals, nurses, dentists, laboratories, pharmacists and every other kind of healthcare provider in the United States, with complete specialty information and contact information – including mailing addresses, phone numbers and fax numbers – updated every month.

In an open form that can be used on ordinary desktop computers and laptops, CarePrecise Access Complete delivers every data field, and every row of data, contained in the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) maintains this database. All healthcare providers who are HIPAA covered entities must obtain a National Provider Identifier (NPI) by reporting their information via the NPPES, and updating it when it changes. This represents virtually all of U.S. physicians, hospitals, and other providers who accept insurance or are associated with a hospital. —the official federal NPI registry—updated monthly by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Using advanced record-linking technology, we include providers' PECOS The federal database containing information on healthcare providers who are eligible to bill Medicare (Provider Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System). enrollment status, indicating providers who are eligible to bill Medicare, and warnings on providers posted in the federal List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE) List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE): The federal database maintained by the HHS Office of Inspector General containing information on providers who have been barred from billing Medicare due to fraud or controlled substance conviction, patient neglect or abuse, and other reasons. CarePrecise uses a proprietary record-linking system to attach active NPI numbers.—providers barred from billing Medicare—otherwise unavailable with an NPI number.

CPAC includes a separate database with the complete data on deactivated providers—the only complete listing of deceased, retired and barred providers available anywhere. All in one product, for just $399 .

The data is comprehensive and authoritative, reported and updated by providers themselves in their federal National Provider Identifier (NPI) record as required by HHS, and is the single best source of detailed information on the nation's 6 million doctors, dentists, nurses, clinics, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and all other provider types.

Whether you need a medical provider database in order to pre-populate a healthcare IT product or billing system, or to use as a medical mailing list or medical marketing list, the CarePrecise Access Complete healthcare provider database offers the best value and most up-to-date healthcare provider data available anywhere.

CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC) gives you the full U.S. medical provider database,* in normalized form, including all the NPPES data, plus specialty and subspecialty Specialties are reported by providers using their Provider Taxonomy Codes. CarePrecise datasets include both the taxonomy code and the specialty in plain English. Click the link to see current specialties. (provider taxonomy) descriptions, PECOS status, warnings on providers who have been flagged for fraud and other infractions, and new and dropped providers, in both Microsoft Access® and CSV formats, and delivers it all to you via download. Constant updates, generally available within 72 hours of the monthly federal data release, assure the best provider information available.

Historical data back 10+ years

Our separate database of rich data on deactivated providers since 2005 includes the date of deactivation, name, address, specialties - all of the same fields as the standard data on current providers. Updated and included with each month's release.

NEW: Multiple practice locations and alternative names

Beginning in July 2018 CarePrecise includes two new tables in the Standard (CPA), Extended (CPAC+EPGH), Gold and Platinum packages:

• Other Practice Locations - multiple practice locations per provider
• Other Org Names - alternative organization names per Type 2 (organization) provider

DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATIONS

CarePrecise Access Complete (CPAC) is a normalized relational database. The format is specifically designed to be used on standard office-class desktop and laptop computers, overcoming the file size and maximum row and column issues posed by oversized databases. This allows queries to act on the full dataset (more than 5 gigabytes) on a standard PC, either using the Microsoft Access MDB files, or by importing into other database applications such as FileMaker, SalesForce, MySQL, MS-SQL, Postgre, Oracle, FoxPro, Caché, etc. using the provided CSV files. In addition to the complete NPPES data, more information has been added from other authoritative sources. Specialty and subspecialty descriptions have been added to the taxonomy data, enabling searches for "dentist," "otolaryngology," etc., in addition to the provider taxonomy codesSpecialties are reported by providers using their Provider Taxonomy Codes. CarePrecise datasets include both the taxonomy code and the specialty in plain English. Click the link to see current specialties.. The LEIE database of providers excluded from billing Medicare is included and linked to NPI records using advanced record-linkage, providing an NPI number for all LEIE (barred provider) records on matching providers, including providers not given an NPI number within the LEIE. An "InPECOS" field indicates all providers who have completed the enrollment process for billing Medicare and are currently in the federal PECOS system. The CarePrecise Access dataset can be used to:

• Correct and enrich your provider data
• Create tightly targeted lists of providers by specialty, location, type, gender and more
• Create contact or mailing lists, or update existing lists with accurate addresses, phones, etc.
• Match and validate provider data based on
  • NPI number The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requires every healthcare provider "covered entity" -- both individuals and organizations -- to obtain a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number by enumerating with the National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services developed and maintains this database. "Covered entity" is defined under under HIPAA as any provider who may be listed on any electronic healthcare claim -- essentially every U.S. physician, dentist, optician, etc., and every hospital, clinic, pharmacy, lab, and many other kinds of healthcare provider.
  • UPIN
  • State License Number
  • Provider names and 'AKA' data (i.e., other name, legal business name)
  • Authorizing Official names and contact information In addition to the provider's name, the Authorizing Official name often provides access to a high-level administrative contact within a hospital, or an office manager or managing partner within a physician office.
  • Credentials
  • Practice and mailing addresses
  • Phone and fax numbers
  • Crosswalking IDs (Medicaid number, Medicare PIN, UPIN, NSC, OSCAR and others)
  • All reported taxonomy (specialty) codes
• Check PECOS provider enrollment for physicians and other providers (Medicare billing eligibility)
• Identify new providers and those who have updated their information
• Identify providers who have had Medicare billing privileges revoked
• Identify all providers working at the same practice location
• Identify group practices
• Obtain data on deactivated providers, even though their data has been removed from the active database
• Be alerted when a provider is dropped from the federal healthcare provider database
• Search any NPPES data field, plus our added specialty/subspecialty field (appended English translation of providers' taxonomy codes)
• Segment providers by specialty and subspecialty
• Import provider data into your own applications
• Develop clinical trial participant pools
• Develop research data and market analysis

Co-Location Coding

The exclusive CarePrecise CoLoCode™ is an algorithmic derivation from provider practice location data, which makes it possible to view providers by practice location. Our QoRelate™ record linkage system standardizes and conforms location data beyond postal specifications to link providers practicing together.

These data can be used together to successfully identify providers in groups, and to identify any provider type in a co-located group practice location, including pjhysicians, dentists, optometrists, radiologists, etc.

FILE FORMATS

The product is delivered in two formats as downloadable files, in two file formats, each containing identical data:

• Microsoft Access (.mdb); normalized relational tables, plus a control database with query examples
  
• Comma Separated Values (.csv); normalized relational tables

DELIVERY

Customers receive a link via email to download the files. Optional shipping via mail on a DVD disk or thumb drive is also available.

SUPPORT

The Single Purchase option includes 30 days of free Technical Support, and the subscription options come with 90 days of free Technical Support. See support details.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

For the CSV files: Any operating system and software that supports relatively large comma separated values files. For the MDB files: Microsoft Windows 7 or later, 4GB RAM, Microsoft Office Pro or Microsoft Access 2007 or later.

DATA STRUCTURE

CarePrecise Access is distributed as normalized relational database tables (MDB files), each keyed by the National Provider Identifier (NPI) number, plus a core Microsoft Access database that links the files together and includes query examples, tables that identify added, dropped and deactivated provider records, and CSV versions of the files. Through data normalization, CarePrecise reduces more than 330 highly redundant flat-file fields to less than 70, removing large volumes of unused space while preserving every character of the data and all of the original granularity. The data is in no other way abridged, but is ready to access at a fraction of the original file sizes, and in a form that can readily be searched, manipulated and imported into applications, all relationally linked by the unique NPI number.

Download a sample CPAC data pack here; the sample is identical in structure to the full set, but a reduced number of records, and does not contain deactivated provider data. Sample EPGH data is not yet available; refer to the fields list below.

The CPAC product contains all of the fields shown in the gray section in the chart below.

Click for a printer-friendly version of the fields list.

LICENSING

CarePrecise data is licensed for use by the purchaser and may not be redistributed. Review the End User License Agreement. Redistribution licensing is also available. Unless a redistribution or multi-user license is obtained separately, the standard End User License Agreement permits the licesee to use the data in any way desired as long as it is within and for the buyer's own organization and is used by only one user at a time (may not be installed on multiple computers for use by multiple simultaneous users). Alternative licensing options are available for uses that involve distribution of the data or use of the data by more than one user and/or for public viewing, and are purchased separately.

MORE INFORMATION

Contact CarePrecise Sales at (877) 782-2294, sales@careprecise.com

Click to order: Single Purchase $399 | Subscriptions: 4 Per Year $898 | 12 Per Year $2,020 **

* The only more complete databases are our own CarePrecise Gold, and the CPAC with the Extended Profesional, Group and Hospital add-on. All HIPAA-covered entities are included in the CPAC product.

** Subscription plans include the listed release schedule for the listed time period, with releases approximately monthly or approximately quarterly as indicated. Each release is based on the most recent dissemination from the data sources currently available at the time of the release.

The data contained in CarePrecise® products and services is compiled and processed on an ongoing basis, with monthly update releases, from public and proprietary sources, including the complete National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) data submitted by the providers themselves, Medicare Provider Enrollment Chain and Ownership System (PECOS), List of Excluded Individuals/Entities (LEIE), Medicare claims data, and other US federal sources obtainable under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and provided monthly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Services and Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and from the U.S. Census Bureau, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce, agencies of the U.S. federal government, and the United States Postal Service (USPS). Neither CarePrecise nor its shareholders, partners and affiliates are responsible for data maintained by these or other source providers. All HIPAA-covered entity healthcare providers in the U.S. are required under the Federal NPI regulation to provide their information to the NPI Registry, a federal database of healthcare providers, and to update their records within thirty days of any change in that information. Data is provided "as is" and in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and e-FOIA ammendments, and relevant data dissemination notices. While these sources are considered among the most reliable available, no warranty is expressed or implied as to the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, fitness for any purpose, or absence of processing errors of the information presented here or in any CarePrecise product or service, nor that the data structure will not be changed in the future as necessitated by source data, beyond the diligent effort to include all released data. Nothing in the product descriptions, in writing or verbal, may be construed as a warranty, guarantee, or representation of deliverability, save the deliverability guarantee on email addresses. All data ages between updates, and it is reasonable to expect that a portion of records will contain contact information that is incorrect or for other reasons undeliverable. Not all fields are populated with data for every record except where indicated; some fields are not populated due to restrictions imposed by a data supplier even though a field may be present for later use. Where percent of records populated is quoted, the percent quoted is subject to slight differences upon delivery as data is continuously updated. To determine a provider's eligibility to practice and/or to bill Medicare or other health plans and carriers, or to in any other way perform professional activities, users should not rely solely on data included in CarePrecise datasets, particularly regarding alleged fraudulent or infraction activity given as reason for listing in data on excluded providers (records carrying "sanction", "desanction", "warning" and/or "exclusion" identifiers or flags). Data which has been in-matched using algorithmic rather than direct means will include a percentage of error; such data is labeled as such in the documentation. Algorithmic in-matching logic and processes are proprietary trade secrets. Subscriptions are fullfilled with quarterly or monthly releases containing the most recently released data from all pertinent sources. CarePrecise is a registered trademark, and CarePrecise Access, CarePrecise Select, CarePrecise Gold, CarePrecise Platinum, CP ListMaker, CP ChangeMaker, SharpMail, Authoritative Physician Database, and Authoritative Hospital Database are trademarks of CarePrecise LLC. All CarePrecise products including data, data structures, code, and related materials are the property of CarePrecise LLC and protected by U.S. and international copyright. Other trademarks and copyrights are the property of their respective owners. CarePrecise reserves the right to cease services and/or communication with parties that abuse its services or its personnel, or fail to comply with its terms of service. For additional information on CarePrecise policies see the Policies page. Purchase of a CarePrecise product affirms understanding and acceptance of these policies and this information, and affirms that use will conform to the product's license agreement. Pricing for CarePrecise products published on its website are licensed for a single user. Any form of dissemination, sharing, making public, distribution, or derivative product, whether or not for profit, is strictly forbidden without an alternative licensing arrangement; such licensing arrangements are available - please contact CarePrecise Sales for terms and pricing.