In order to implement the NPPES/NPI data, you would need to take the same steps that we already have. Why do the work when we have already done most of it for you?
NPPESData.com can help to ensure successful implementation of NPI data in your application, and provide a number of additional benefits:
Immediate Cost Benefit
It will require the average company 30-50 hours of expensive IT time to clean and build out the full NPPES data set as provided by CMS, another 50-100 hours to build out software for processing updates, and then at least 5-10 hours per month to process updates.
With NPPESData.com, most of this work is taken care of. Time can be reduced to 5-10 hours for initial implementation and 2-3 hours per month to process updates.
Speed to Implementation
Be up and running in a couple of days - you can have the full NPI data set up and running in a few hours.
Mitigate the Cost of Changes
CMS has frequently added columns to their files without notice. Managing these changes can be time consuming and expensive.
We provide the resources necessary to minimize the effort required to implement these changes.
Reduce Future Costs
If you implement your own process for managing the NPI data, you will encounter problems in the raw data that will require adjustment to your processing software. This requires maintaining someone with expertise in both the data and the software and an exception management process to deal with bad data.
We make small changes to our software every month to adjust - and we are experts at managing the data.
Reduce Errors
As an example, here was the message on the download website in May 2008:
"The NPPES file that was made available for downloading on May 22, 2008 contained two corrupted files. Those files have been replaced and the May NPPES file is now available...." (screenshot) Using our services, you can be assured that we have already corrected for such problems.
Additional Online Resources
We provide a set of online resources including technical guides, scripts and best practice recommendations that enable you to complete your initial implementation and subsequent updates quickly and take the guesswork out of the process.
Minimize hassle
We manage all of the problems present in the raw NPI data, and maintain a full history of each provider in the data set, and we do it in a timely manner. No need to divert valuable resources to process each month's new data.