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A National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique 10-digit identification number issued to health care providers in the United States by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The NPI has replaced the Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) as the required identifier for Medicare services, and is used by other payers ...
A DEA number (DEA Registration Number) is an identifier assigned to a health care provider (such as a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, optometrist, podiatrist, dentist, or veterinarian) by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration allowing them to write prescriptions for controlled substances.
The content of a prescription includes the name and address of the prescribing provider and any other legal requirements, such as a registration number (e.g., a DEA number in the United States). Unique to each prescription is the name of the patient. In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the patient's name and address must also be recorded.
It is estimated that 20% of paper-based prescription orders go unfilled by the patient, partly due to the hassle of dropping off a paper prescription and waiting for it to be filled. By elimination or reducing this waiting period, e-prescribing may help reduce the number of unfilled prescriptions and hence, increasing medication adherence.
The AMA also charges data mining companies such as IQVIA a fee for access to the Physician Masterfile, which they then use to identify physicians within prescription data purchased from pharmacies. [3] This enriched, prescriber-identified prescription data is then sold to pharmaceutical companies that use it to monitor marketing effectiveness.
A unique physician identification number (UPIN) was a six-character alpha-numeric identifier used by Medicare to identify doctors in the United States. They were discontinued in June 2007 [ 1 ] and replaced by National Provider Identifier , or NPI numbers.
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On May 15, 1996, Caremark International, a provider of manager health services, announced it would be acquired by MedPartners. [5] [6] Caremark International was founded as a unit of Baxter International and was spun off from Baxter in 1992 as a publicly traded company. [5] In 2000, MedPartners changed its name to Caremark Rx. [7]