Datatypes

US National Provider Identifier (NPI)

ID usnpi

A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Categories

Personally identifiable information, Person related

Countries

United States

Languages

English

AutoType benchmark

npi

HL7 FHIR identifier system

http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/us-npi

FTA

IDENTITY.NPI_US

Google DLP

US_HEALTHCARE_NPI

Presidio

US_NPI

Schema.org

usNPI

Wikidata

P9450

Quality

90/100 · missing: negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

4 rules (2 by field name, 2 by value)

• usnpifield field, pii/us/us_pii.yaml
• usnpivalue data, pii/us/us_pii.yaml
• us_persons_usnpifield field, us/us_persons.yaml
• us_persons_usnpivalue data, us/us_persons.yaml

Supported by tools

Amazon Macie, Auto-Type, AWS Glue Sensitive Data Detection, Collibra Data Classification, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), metacrafter, Nightfall AI, Microsoft Presidio

Regular expression

^\d{10}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Provider_Identifier
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9450

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/usnpi
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/US/persons/usnpi.yaml on GitHub