Public Use Data File

The NPDB Public Use Data File contains selected variables from medical malpractice payment and adverse licensure, clinical privileges, professional society membership, and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reports (adverse actions) received by the NPDB concerning physicians, dentists, and other licensed health care professionals. It also includes reports of Medicare and Medicaid exclusion actions taken by the Department of HHS Office of Inspector General. Malpractice payers, state licensing agencies, hospitals, other entities, and professional societies are required to report this data to the National Practitioner Data Bank under the provisions of Title IV of P.L. 99-660, Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended. This file does not include any information that identifies individual practitioners or reporting entities. The file is designed to provide data for statistical analysis only.

This file is updated four times each year to include data as of March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31. The updated file is generally available within two months of the listed dates. The file currently available for download contains disclosable reports received from September 1, 1990 through September 30, 2008.

Detailed file description and format information is available through the link below.

Your contact information is required for statistical purposes. This information will not be distributed to other parties. The NPDB provides the Public Use Data File in Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) format and as an American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) text file. Please enter your contact information, select the desired format, and click Download File.

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