NPI Referral Data

What Is In The Data?

Data is available from 2009 to 2017.

The data indicates shared relationships between physicians and other healthcare providers indicating the number of patients they share as well as who saw the patient first.

The datasets are very large. For example, the 2016 dataset is over 140 million records of referral data.

Correlation does not equal causation. The data can, however, visualize referral networks to help a practice gain isnight into their referral network and where patients are being referred to.

The datasets for 2014-2017 include the following:

• The first provider or facilitiy seen in sequence, idenitified by NPI.
• The second provider or facilitiy seen in sequence, idenitified by NPI.
• The total number of patients shared between the two providers (or faciiltities) over the yearly period.
• The transaction count, the number of times that a patient switched between the two providers, or visits.
• The average number of days it took for a patient to visit the second provider after having seen the first provider.

The datasets for 2009-2013 include the following:

• The provider or facilitiy source, idenitified by NPI.
• The provider or facilitiy destination, idenitified by NPI.
• The total number of patients shared between the two providers (or faciltities) over the yearly period.
• The referral total, the number of times that a patient switched between the two providers (or faciltities), or visits.
• The same day totals, the number of times a patient switched between the two providers (or faciltities) in the same day.

Example Data

If you want to see what the purchased data looks like, we have some files available for you to download.

To view a file without lab referrals, click here.

To view a file including lab referrals, click here.

Data Visualization

Our data visualization will easily let you discover the insights of relationships between the selected providers and organizaitons.