---
id: "npi"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["medical"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/npi"
---

# US NPI identifier (`npi`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Datatype for 'US NPI identifier' (npi) from rules in context 'medical'.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Medical/pharma identifiers (medical)
- Countries: global
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{10}$
```

## Examples

- `1467536276` — Seattle Children's
- `1194083568` — Seattle Children's
- `1750599809` — Sinai Hospital

## Mappings

- fhir: `http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-npi`
- google_dlp: `US_HEALTHCARE_NPI`
- presidio: `US_NPI`
- schema_org: `usNPI`
- wikidata: `P9450`

## Metacrafter rules

2 rules: 1 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `ennpiField` (field, `us/us_persons.yaml`)
- `ennpivalue` (data, `us/us_persons.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `amazonmacie`
- `awsglue`
- `collibra`
- `databricks`
- `googledlp`
- `metacrafter`
- `nightfall`
- `presidio`

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9450>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: negative example, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/npi.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/medical/npi.yaml>