order npi number

The national provider identifier for a clinical service request. Used as a unique reference to identify and track the order across healthcare systems. This field is commonly used in electronic health records (EHR), healthcare information systems (HIS), and clinical data warehouses for order management and reporting.

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
ord_npi

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  ord_npi      VARCHAR(10),  -- order npi number (max 10 chars)
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.

Provider data management is one of the most operationally complex data domains in healthcare because providers move, merge, and update their credentials continuously. A data engineer who understands provider terminology can build NPI validation, credentialing, and network adequacy pipelines that keep provider directories accurate and prevent claim rejections. Stale or incorrect provider data is a leading cause of prior authorization delays and CMS compliance findings.

• Provider data management and credentialing workflows
• Network adequacy analysis and directory accuracy
• NPI validation and NPPES registry reconciliation
• Provider master data management (MDM)
• Payer-provider contract and fee schedule management
• Epic SER provider master and Cerner provider registry reconciliation pipelines
• Snowflake provider dimension table design with SCD Type 2 historical tracking
• Databricks NPPES data pipeline for weekly registry refresh and provider MDM updates

• NPI numbers fail the Luhn check-digit test in approximately 1–2% of raw feeds — implement Luhn validation as a mandatory data quality gate before loading provider records into Epic or Cerner integration tables.
• Provider taxonomy codes (NUCC) are updated annually — maintain a versioned reference table with effective dates and validate incoming codes against the current NUCC taxonomy file in your Snowflake provider master.
• Provider address data degrades rapidly: CMS estimates 15–20% of NPPES addresses become outdated within 12 months — schedule quarterly NPPES reconciliation jobs in Databricks to refresh your provider master data.