National Council for Prescription Drug Programs & HCIdea™
present the
"The Prescriber Identity Solution"

The HCIdea™ v2.0 is NCPDP’s relational database product of over 1.3 million prescribers. Data from over 600 sources makes this robust set of data a valuable tool in assisting pharmacy, manufacturer’s, payer/processors, vendors and providers in identifying and authenticating prescribers.

A solver of business problems, HCIdea™ is a great tool to assist you with claims submission and processing, drug utilization reviews, encounter data reporting, fraud and abuse surveillance, e-prescribing and general prescriber information.

HCIdea™ includes 16 tables of prescriber demographics including:
  - Address with multiple practice locations
  - State license numbers & renewal dates
  - UPIN's
  - DEA + drug schedule & renewal dates
  - Birth date
  - Phone
  - Fax
  - Specialty
  - NPI (soon to come)

The HCIdea™ product line also consists of a web based Online Look Up Tool. With all the same data elements as the relational database, this on line look up tool will help pharmacies save time in validating prescribers.

HCIdea™ Online Look Up Tool – For a first hand view, go to www.HCIdeaLookUp.org and click on “Watch the Demo”.

As you prepare for the NPI, the HCIdea™ team will help you clean up your data. Our Data Enhancement product offering is a cleansing service utilizing industry tested and proven Ingenix matching and cleansing methodologies. These new optional services relieve large organizations of the tedious work of deduping, standardizing, cleaning, filling and correcting their prescriber data files. For a free assessment and information on the integrity of your data, as well as the total HCIdea™ product, contact Robin Ebert at the NCPDP Council office on 480-477-1000 Ext 118 or rebert@NCPDP.org.

The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs "Taking Pharmacy Further"

Founded in 1977, NCPDP is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited, Standards Development Organization with over 1500 members representing virtually every sector of the pharmacy services industry. Our diverse membership provides leadership and healthcare business solutions through education and standards, created using the consensus building process. NCPDP has been named in federal legislation, including HIPAA and the MMA. NCPDP members have created standards such as the Telecommunication Standard and Batch Standard, the SCRIPT Standard for e-Prescribing, the Manufacturers Rebate Standard and more to improve communication within the pharmacy industry. Our data services include the NCPDP Provider Identification Number, a unique identifier of over 75,000 pharmacies, and HCIdea, “The Prescriber Identity Solution”. For more information about NCPDP Standards, Data Services, Educational Programs and Work Group meetings, go online at www.ncpdp.org or call (480) 477-1000.