How to search healthcare providers by NPI, city, state, and taxonomy
If you already store an NPI, lookup is the fastest path—one GET, one normalized payload, explicit not-found handling.
When the user supplies a name, organization, city, or state, directory search returns candidates. Taxonomy filters help narrow specialties before you confirm with lookup.
Metering treats a successful search response as a lookup credit—plan for that in autocomplete UIs that debounce queries.
Search by name and location
curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" "https://healthproviderapi.com/api/v1/providers/search?last_name=Smith&limit=10"