---
id: "usnpi"
kind: "datatype"
status: "stable"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
country: ["US"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 90
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/usnpi"
---

# US National Provider Identifier (NPI) (`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).

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: United States (US)
- 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

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

## Metacrafter rules

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

- `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

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

## Sources

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

## Quality

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

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