Healthcare provider data

Healthcare provider data describes the people and organizations that deliver care: physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies and labs. Pharma and medtech sales teams use it for targeting and territory design, payers and health systems for network management, and digital health companies for directories and referral tools.

Typical fields

• Provider name, credentials and identifier (in the US, the NPI)
• Primary and secondary specialties or taxonomy codes
• Practice addresses, phone numbers and geocodes
• Hospital, group practice and health-system affiliations
• License state, status and expiry
• Facility type, bed count or practice size

Sources and collection

US datasets usually start from the NPPES NPI registry, which is public but self-reported, so addresses and specialties are often out of date. Providers layer on state licensing boards, public CMS files, practice websites, phone verification and claims-derived affiliation signals. Outside the US, sources include professional council registers and official facility lists, and coverage varies by country.

Delivery and pricing

Delivered as flat files over SFTP or cloud shares, or through a lookup API for directory and validation use cases. Pricing is usually an annual licence scaled by record count, specialties and countries, with higher fees for verified contact points and affiliation data.

Before you buy

• Ask how often addresses and affiliations are re-verified, not just refreshed from NPPES.
• Check the share of records with a verified practice location versus a billing or mailing address.
• Confirm how group practices and multi-site providers are modeled.
• Review which contact uses are permitted, including email and phone outreach.
• Test a sample against providers you already know well.