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The HCIdea™ Database is ideal for a wide variety of applications where prescriber information is needed. The Database is purchased by healthcare industry organizations where it is highly regarded for the accuracy of its prescriber demographic information. A recent audit revealed the database to be 95.8% accurate on address delivery information.

Prescriber Identification
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) began the HCIdea™ initiative in 1992 to satisfy industry's need for a unique prescriber identifier. The pharmacy industry needed an alternative to the DEA or State License Number to identify the prescriber on a prescription claim.

The Database's multiple address feature groups addresses for an individual prescriber together under one identifier. This location identification is needed for e-Prescribing among other applications where practice address is important.

This feature is also valuable for utilization review and prescription fraud and abuse monitoring.

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Database Maintenance
Keeping internal prescriber databases clean and up-to-date is a labor intensive task. More and more organizations are turning to NCPDP's HCIdea™ Database as an alternative to maintaining internal prescriber databases.

NCPDP data suppliers include various areas of the healthcare industry including payers and pharmacies. This insures HCIdea™ includes data on new prescribers and practice locations. Monthly updates aid in keeping internal provider databases clean and current.

A recent audit found the NCPDP HCIdea™ Database to be 95.8% accurate on practice addresses.

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Market Analysis and Promotional Activities
The NCPDP HCIdea™ Database contains demographic information on over one million prescribers including multiple addresses or practice locations. Licensees receive monthly updates, which insure your information is up-to-date and current. Addresses are normalized using USPS files.

A recent audit found the HCIdea™ Database to be 95.8% accurate on prescriber addresses. This makes the HCIdea Database ideal for your marketing activities when accurate prescriber information is critical.

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Fraud & Abuse Surveillance and Utilization Review
The costs of drug therapy continue to escalate at an alarming rate. Healthcare payers are experiencing double digit inflation in the costs of the prescription drug benefit. Nationwide, both public and private payers are increasing their activities associated with monitoring prescribing practices as well as review patient drug utilization and fraud or abuse surveillance.

The NCPDP HCIdea™ Database contains prescriber identifiers including one or more DEA numbers as well as a unique HCId™ number for each prescriber. Prescribers of all types are enumerated and identified. HCIdea™ customers find the database a valuable tool in authenticating prescribers for these activities.

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Identity Management
Today, providers are often identified through different numbers in various information systems, even within the same organization. Industry is struggling to facilitate the flow of data across disparate systems. Because the NCPDP HCIdea™ Database contains multiple identifiers, it facilitates identification of providers across different databases by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of mapping activities.

Multiple practice addresses are tied together using a prescriber-unique HCId™ number.

This feature is also important to organizations as they implement the National Provider Identifier (NPI) within their systems.

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