---
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 (IPAG_Data_Products@cms.hhs.gov)

## 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