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    • Order and Referring

    Metadata Updated: August 30, 2025

    The Order and Referring dataset provides information on all physicians and non-physician practitioners, by their National Provider Identifier (NPI), who are of a type/specialty that is legally eligible to order and refer in the Medicare program and who have current enrollment records in Medicare. 

    Note: This full dataset contains more records than most spreadsheet programs can handle, which will result in an incomplete load of data. Use of a database or statistical software is required.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

    Downloads & Resources

    References

    https://data.cms.gov/resources/order-and-referring-methodology

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date January 25, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
    Data Update Frequency R/P3.5D

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date January 25, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date August 30, 2025
    Publisher Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cms.gov/data-api/v1/dataset/c99b5865-1119-4436-bb80-c5af2773ea1f/data-viewer
    Data First Published 2021-12-22
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-29
    Category Medicare
    Public Access Level public
    Data Update Frequency R/P3.5D
    Bureau Code 009:38
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Data Dictionary https://data.cms.gov/resources/order-and-referring-data-dictionary
    Harvest Object Id 3d25fd82-de4c-402a-a57d-0dd450b28ec4
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://data.cms.gov/provider-characteristics/medicare-provider-supplier-enrollment/order-and-referring
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Program Code 009:000
    Related Documents https://data.cms.gov/resources/order-and-referring-methodology
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bfe1babea97552f67e9ab3fd34ef21cbfff63b2faa2f778d78153793b6059fc5
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2023-05-21/2025-08-23

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