My business partner and I are putting together an NPI search application call NPI Now - http://www.npinow.com. Searching isn't all that NPI Now will do! We offer enhanced NPI data of over 5.8 million records. We use several proprietary methods - called the Scoring and Grading Algorithm, or SAGA, to enhance the data. Additionally, SAGA will apply a score to each NPI record to indicate our estimation, based on the process, of the accuracy of the data.
While I cannot get into specifics because of the proprietary nature of the process, I can say the goal of NPI Now is to provide pharma, medical device, and any companies participating in Open Payments, peace of mind when submitting data to CMS. When data is submitted to CMS, the final step is an officer of the reporting company personally attesting to the accuracy of the data. That's a big risk so who wouldn't want an additional level of comfort that the data is accurate?
In addition to searching for physician data, NPI Now provides API services for your organization. The API can be used as a lookup of NPI data with additional SAGA scoring data. We also offer batch NPI data based on specific criteria like taxonomy codes or the entire set. Our NPI data is updated weekly to ensure the latest data is processed and available. Additional NPI data specifications are available upon request.
Finally, we provide an augmented list of over 800 taxonomy codes with ID's, categories, and titles. We include the deprecated taxonomy codes since CMS often removes them from reporting. However, few people know about these changes and they typically don't know about the change until the data fails when uploaded during the CMS reporting month.
What makes us experts? I have over 10-years of aggregate spend and CMS Open Payments experience. I spent the majority of that time working with Top 10 pharma companies. In addition to being a top analyst in the industry, I have developed several applications and processes to facilitate and validate the collection and reporting of aggregate spend data. I have also served as Submitter of data into the CMS Open Payments systems. I know what makes good data, but I really know what makes bad data!
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