Data Sources

GEThttps://api-healthcare-providers.dataandapis.com/v1/sources

Data Sources is an endpoint of the Healthcare Providers API. Look up any of 9.37 million US NPIs with specialties resolved to plain names.

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Request

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl

curl "https://api-healthcare-providers.dataandapis.com/v1/sources" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api-healthcare-providers.dataandapis.com/v1/sources", {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.DATAANDAPIS_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api-healthcare-providers.dataandapis.com/v1/sources",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["DATAANDAPIS_KEY"]},
)
data = r.json()

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 2,
  "sources": [
    {
      "slug": "nppes",
      "name": "CMS NPPES Data Dissemination (full monthly file)",
      "publisher": "US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services",
      "licence": "US Government work - public domain",
      "source_url": "https://download.cms.gov/nppes/NPI_Files.html",
      "file_url": "https://download.cms.gov/nppes/NPPES_Data_Dissemination_August_2026_V2.zip",
      "cadence": "monthly full + weekly incrementals",
      "record_count": 9374927,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-02"
    },
    {
      "slug": "nucc-taxonomy",
      "name": "NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy",
      "publisher": "National Uniform Claim Committee",
      "licence": "Freely available; (c) American Medical Association",
      "source_url": "https://www.nucc.org/",
      "file_url": "https://www.nucc.org/images/stories/CSV/nucc_taxonomy_251.csv",
      "cadence": "twice yearly",
      "record_count": 883,
      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-02"
    }
  ]
}

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