Published following the May 2020 CMS Interoperability and Patient Access final rule, this dataset lists healthcare providers and clinicians who do not have digital contact information in the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System. It contains provider names and National Provider Identifiers (NPIs) as reported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Use Cases
- Analyze the distribution of providers lacking digital contact information by name to identify reporting trends.
- Cross-reference the listed NPI numbers with other CMS datasets to study provider data completeness.
- Monitor changes in provider digital inclusion over time by tracking updates to this public NPPES report.
Strengths
- Data is published by the authoritative Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
- Focuses on a specific, policy-mandated metric: the absence of digital contact information in NPPES.
- Includes unique provider identifiers (NPIs) enabling linkage with other healthcare datasets.
Limitations
- The dataset scope is limited to providers enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid programs, excluding others.
- Contains only a binary status (present/absent) for digital contact information without details on the type or reason for absence.
- Temporal coverage and update frequency are not specified, potentially affecting recency.
Provenance
- Source
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Collection Method
- Extracted from the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) as part of CMS regulatory reporting.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United States (implied by CMS jurisdiction)