Identification Numbers (DBIDs)?
Most registered organizations require only one DBID but, in limited situations, a healthcare organization may obtain additional DBIDs. Remember that a unique DBID is issued based on meeting the statutory and regulatory definitions of the specific type of healthcare organization (i.e., hospital, other healthcare entity, health plan). One example is when a healthcare organization, that is eligible to query both the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB), wants to query different Data Banks for different types of practitioners. The healthcare organization could establish separate registrations with different query preferences. For example, the healthcare organization might want to query both Data Banks for physicians but query only the HIPDB for nurses. All queries submitted under one of the registrations would automatically go to both the NPDB and the HIPDB, while queries submitted using the other registration’s DBID would aut
