NPDB queries for healthcare credentialing.
The National Practitioner Data Bank is a federal repository of medical malpractice payments, certain adverse privilege actions, and related licensing and exclusion events. Hospitals and other eligible entities query it as part of credentialing.
Also called National Practitioner Data Bank, NPDB self-query, malpractice query.
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How it runs on vID
Identity verified
Search runs
Report returned
What it covers
NPDB results an eligible entity is authorized to receive on a practitioner- Malpractice payment and privilege-action history as the bank reports them
Access is regulated, so most generalist CRAs cannot casually query it; DataFacts lists physician credentialing as a stack on top of criminal and verifications. We fulfill through partners eligible to query — non-practitioner hiring usually wants exclusions and a license check instead.
What it covers
- NPDB results an eligible entity is authorized to receive on a practitioner
- Malpractice payment and privilege-action history as the bank reports them
What it doesn’t cover
Replace primary-source license verification or exclusion screening- Run for aides, most allied roles, or volunteers — those are other products
- Get fulfilled by an ineligible CRA — we will not fake it with a web search
Where the data comes from.
National Practitioner Data Bank
Federal, eligible-entity access; self-query is a different path used in some credentialing flows.
Why identity comes first.
Practitioners share names. NPI, license number, and a vID-bound identity attach a query to one human.
How the network fulfills it.
The network includes healthcare-credentialing partners. We route NPDB to them instead of asking a generalist CRA to grow a hospital desk.
This is the wrong search if…
Non-practitioner hiring
Use exclusions, criminal, and license checks as applicable. Leave the bank alone.
Commonly ordered with.
- Professional license verification
Current board status next to bank history.
- Healthcare exclusion screening
Federal program eligibility next to malpractice history.
- Education verification
The degree the credentialing file also wants.
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Identity-verified, fulfilled through the partner network.
Who orders this
Frequently asked questions.
If you credential practitioners, query the bank.
Identity-verified, eligible-entity path — not a criminal-search add-on in disguise.
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