NPPES NPI Registry Individuals or organizations apply for NPIs through the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) After we supply an NPI, we publish the parts of the NPI record that have public relevance, including the provider's name, specialty (taxonomy) and practice address
NPPES NPPES is a system that assigns and manages unique identifiers for healthcare providers and plans in the US
NPI Files - Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services Effective 03 03 2026 NPPES will no longer support Version 1 of the Monthly and Weekly Downloadable File Version 2 includes all updated field lengths with extended character limits for First Name and Legal Business Name fields
Data Dissemination | CMS NPI Registry - Opens in a new window: The NPI Registry is a query-only database which is updated daily to enable users to query the NPPES (e g , search by NPI, provider name, etc ) and retrieve the FOIA-disclosable data from the search results There is no charge to view the data
NPI Lookup Doctor Search — 2M+ Providers | TopNPI TopNPI combines the National Provider Identifier registry with CMS Medicare quality data into one free, searchable directory All data comes directly from official US government databases and is updated with each CMS release
NPPES NPI Registry The NPI (National Provider Identifier) Registry enables you to search for providers in the NPPES (National Plan and Provider Enumeration System) system All information produced by the NPI Registry is provided in accordance with the NPPES Data Dissemination Notice