Import Guides

Load NPI Data into Your Tools

Each approved release uses a documented CSV contract with identifiers, provider fields, taxonomy, geography, and release metadata. These guides preserve those semantics during import.

One Contract, Reproducible Imports

Each guide covers checksum verification, explicit identifier types, row-count checks, and release-aware promotion. Don't see your tool? Ask us which import pattern applies.

Database

Postgres

Create typed staging tables, load the CSV, verify the manifest, and promote rows into an application schema....

Warehouse

BigQuery

Load provider rows into a partitioned analytical table while preserving release metadata....

Spreadsheet

Excel

Import the CSV through Excel's data importer so NPI and taxonomy values remain text....

Need the row shape first? Review the synthetic schema preview alongside the published catalog and documented field contract.

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