National Downloadable File
The Doctors and Clinicians national file, one line per clinician, enrollment record, group and practice address.
Freshness
- Last posted
- Period covered
- Update frequency
- Next update
Dates as CMS lists them in its catalog. CMS last changed the data itself on Oct 2, 2026.
Before you use it
- A clinician with several enrollment records or practice locations shows up on several lines, so count distinct NPIs, not rows.
Columns 31
The Provider Data Catalog lists only column headers in machine-readable form. Full definitions are in the data dictionary.
| Column | What it means | Type |
|---|---|---|
NPInpi | text | |
Ind_PAC_IDind_pac_id | text | |
Ind_enrl_IDind_enrl_id | text | |
Provider Last Nameprovider_last_name | text | |
Provider First Nameprovider_first_name | text | |
Provider Middle Nameprovider_middle_name | text | |
suffsuff | text | |
gndrgndr | text | |
Credcred | text | |
Med_schmed_sch | text | |
Grd_yrgrd_yr | text | |
pri_specpri_spec | text | |
sec_spec_1sec_spec_1 | text | |
sec_spec_2sec_spec_2 | text | |
sec_spec_3sec_spec_3 | text | |
sec_spec_4sec_spec_4 | text | |
sec_spec_allsec_spec_all | text | |
Telehlthtelehlth | text | |
Facility Namefacility_name | text | |
org_pac_idorg_pac_id | text | |
num_org_memnum_org_mem | text | |
adr_ln_1adr_ln_1 | text | |
adr_ln_2adr_ln_2 | text | |
ln_2_sprsln_2_sprs | text | |
City/Towncitytown | text | |
Statestate | text | |
ZIP Codezip_code | text | |
Telephone Numbertelephone_number | text | |
ind_assgnind_assgn | text | |
grp_assgngrp_assgn | text | |
adrs_idadrs_id | text |
No column matches that filter.
At a glance
- Catalog
- Provider Data Catalog
- Publisher
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Rows
- 3,630,233
- Columns
- 31
- State column
state- Contact
- QPP@cms.hhs.gov
API
Free, no key needed. This request returns the first 10 rows as JSON:
https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/api/1/datastore/query/mj5m-pzi6/0?limit=10
To keep only one state, filter on the state column.
CMS's description
The Doctors and Clinicians national downloadable file is organized such that each line is unique at the clinician/enrollment record/group/address level. Clinicians with multiple Medicare enrollment records and/or single enrollments linking to multiple practice locations are listed on multiple lines.
The summary at the top was written by hand from this description. Record id pdc:mj5m-pzi6. This record as JSON.