Wikidata:Property proposal/National Provider Identifier

National Provider Identifier

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: National Provider Identifier (P9450) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identification number for American health care providers issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Represents	National Provider Identifier (Q6975101)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Q24229398
Allowed values	\d{10}
Example 1	Laura Georgi DiStefano (Q75863450) → 1609145358
Example 2	Mark E. Cooper (Q106399713) → 1184991796
Example 3	Sinai Hospital (Q17034590) → 1750599809
Source	https://download.cms.gov/nppes/NPI_Files.html
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Planned use	Link to meta:Mix'n'match and review the "Preliminarily matched" items that this tool can automatically identify. Many items in the NPI database are not sufficiently notable to import into Wikidata and therefore I have no intention of working through items that cannot be at least partially automatically matched.
Number of IDs in source	unknown, perhaps one million
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov/registry/provider-view/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	no
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	Q11035880

Motivation

All healthcare providers in the United States have an NPI, with relevant information readily available from a trusted source accessible via this number. Linking to this identifier will help with item disambiguation and make it easier to import data from this database into Wikidata. Daask (talk) 01:37, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Support As of March 2021 more than 6 million identifiers have been issued --1-Byte (talk) 14:12, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
•  Support. Similar to RPPS ID (P8170) and others. Thierry Caro (talk) 22:53, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
• @Daask, 1-Byte, Thierry Caro: @WikiProject Hospitals:  Done as National Provider Identifier (P9450). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 02:28, 17 April 2021 (UTC)