Search the NPPES registry by name or 10-digit NPI. Free, no login, and smarter about names than the registry itself.
Every US provider and organization has a 10-digit National Provider Identifier. This NPI number lookup searches the official NPPES registry in real time: type a name plus a state, or paste the number itself. Hyphenated, changed, and hard-to-spell names still resolve, because the same Smart Name Match that powers NPivot's paid tools runs here too. When you need more than the registry record, a free NPivot account adds Medicare enrollment, prescribing, procedure volumes, revalidation dates, and group affiliations.
The official NPPES registry is the source of record, and this page searches it live. The difference is what happens next. The registry hands you a name, an address, and a number. A free NPivot account turns that number into the whole picture: whether Medicare enrollment is active, what the provider prescribes and bills, when they revalidate, and who they practice with. If all you need is the number, this page is enough. If you need to act on the provider, sign up and keep going.
An NPI is a 10-digit National Provider Identifier, assigned through CMS's NPPES system to every US healthcare provider and organization that transmits health information electronically. It stays with the provider for life, regardless of job changes, and it is public information.
Type 1 belongs to an individual, such as a physician, NP, or PA. Type 2 belongs to an organization, such as a group practice, hospital, or pharmacy. Many clinicians appear both ways: their own Type 1, plus the Type 2 of the group that bills for them.
Type the name above and add a state to narrow common names. The search checks the NPPES registry in real time and also matches hyphenated, changed, and legal-name forms, so the name you know is usually enough.
No. The official registry is NPPES, run by CMS, and this page searches that registry live. NPivot is not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. What NPivot adds is everything around the number: enrollment, prescribing, utilization, and affiliations, linked into one profile.
Registry results come from the NPPES API in real time, so they reflect what CMS has on file today. The enrichment layers inside NPivot refresh as CMS publishes, and each profile shows its source vintage.