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+language:
+- en
+pretty_name: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider
+tags:
+- hhs
+- cms
+- medicare
+---
+
+# Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider
+
+## Description
+
+The Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners by Provider dataset provides information on use, payments, submitted charges and beneficiary demographic and health characteristics organized by National Provider Identifier (NPI).
+
+ 
+
+Note: This full dataset contains more records than most spreadsheet programs can handle, which will result in an incomplete load of data. Use of a database or statistical software is required.
+
+## Dataset Details
+
+- **Publisher**: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
+- **Temporal Coverage**: 2013-01-01/2023-12-31
+- **Last Modified**: 2025-04-24
+- **Contact**: Medicare Provider Data - OEDA ([email protected])
+
+## Source
+
+Original data can be found at: https://data.cms.gov/provider-summary-by-type-of-service/medicare-physician-other-practitioners/medicare-physician-other-practitioners-by-provider
+
+## Usage
+
+You can load this dataset using:
+
+```python
+from datasets import load_dataset
+ dataset = load_dataset('HHS-Official/medicare-physician-and-other-practitioners-by-prov')
+```
+## License
+
+This dataset is licensed under https://www.usa.gov/government-works