Resolve provider NPIs without owning NPPES cleanup
Collect an NPI at enrollment, call one lookup endpoint from your backend, and render name, entity type, taxonomy, and addresses from a stable JSON contract. Same free tier and dashboard path as the rest of the product.
The integration pain
Virtual care flows need correct provider identity early. Calling the public NPPES API directly pushes parsing, normalization, and outage handling into every service that touches an NPI.
What you ship instead
Your backend calls GET /api/v1/npi/{npi} with a dashboard-issued API key. Responses match the published OpenAPI schema so your enrollment UI and audit trail stay aligned with one contract.
Typical flow
- Collect the NPI during clinician or facility onboarding.
- Look it up from a secure server route or job (never expose the API key in the browser).
- Store normalized fields you need for roster display and support.
- Re-run when data goes stale; use dashboard usage for quota visibility.
Smoke-test with curl
After sign-up, replace the placeholder with your real key. More languages live on the docs quickstart.
curl -sS -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" "https://healthproviderapi.com/api/v1/npi/1003000126"Full step-by-step (sign up → API keys → first request) is in the documentation.