About T-MedInfo

What T-MedInfo is

T-MedInfo is a free directory of U.S. healthcare providers built from public datasets published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and other public bodies. Each provider page shows what those datasets say about one National Provider Identifier (NPI): registration details, practice location, specialty codes and, where CMS publishes them, Medicare services, Medicare Part D prescribing and payments from drug and device companies.

T-MedInfo is an independent directory run by a private individual. T-MedInfo is the name of the website, not a separate company. The site operator is responsible for its editorial content and correction requests. You can reach the operator at support@true-medinfo.com or through the contact form.

Our copy of the NPPES registry lists 7,411,289 individual practitioners and 1,958,206 organizations with an active NPI and a U.S. practice address. An NPI record shows federal registration; it is not a state license and does not show that a provider currently practices. License status is published only by state licensing boards.

T-MedInfo is not affiliated with CMS, Medicare.gov or any government agency. It is not a medical service: we do not diagnose, treat or refer patients, and we do not rate the quality of care of any provider.

Where the data come from

Provider pages are built only from these public datasets:

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): names, NPI numbers, addresses, phone numbers, taxonomy codes and activation status.
• NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy: names of the specialties behind the taxonomy codes.
• Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS): medical school, graduation year, Medicare assignment and telehealth indicator.
• Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (CMS, Part B): services billed to Original Medicare.
• Medicare Part D Prescribers (CMS): prescriptions paid by Medicare Part D.
• Open Payments (CMS): payments from drug and medical device companies.
• Medicare Provider Enrollment and Order and Referring (CMS PECOS data): Medicare enrollment and ordering eligibility.

What we have loaded from each dataset, how often each source is updated, its known limitations and how our figures are calculated are described on Methodology & Data Sources.

Editorial policy

Health information affects decisions about care, so the texts on this site follow these rules.

• Who writes: Patient Guides and explanatory text are published under the site name T-MedInfo; this is not a claim of medical credentials or independent clinical review. Editorial responsibility rests with the individual site operator. The content explains public data and programs; it is not medical advice or physician-reviewed content.
• Primary sources: every factual statement about a health program, a rule or a figure is based on a primary source, such as CMS, Medicare.gov, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), state licensing boards or professional medical associations. Guides cite the sources they rely on.
• Checking: guides are checked against their primary sources before publication. The date on a guide records the last check of its text and sources; it does not mean that provider data were refreshed that day. When we identify a source change or a confirmed error, we review the affected wording and update it as needed.
• Text generated from data: some sentences on provider pages are generated from the datasets, for example a short summary of what the NPPES and CMS records list. They only restate values from those records and name the dataset; they never add facts about a provider that are not in the data.
• Provider data are not edited for promotion: we do not accept payment from providers for a listing, a position in a list or a change to data that come from public sources.
• Advertising: the site is funded by advertising. Ads are labeled “Advertisement” and kept apart from provider data; advertisers have no say in what the pages show.
• Patient reviews: reviews are opinions of registered users. They are published only after moderation, and we cannot confirm that the author was a patient of the provider.
• Not medical advice: nothing on T-MedInfo replaces advice from a licensed healthcare professional. In an emergency, call 911.

Corrections

• Name, address, phone or specialty: these come from NPPES. The lasting fix is to update the record in NPPES; the change can reach our pages after we load an NPPES release containing it. Check our source status and update information; we do not promise an immediate refresh. You can also send us a correction request: we review each request and may correct or hide the details on our pages in the meantime. A correction made only on our pages can be replaced by a later NPPES file.
• Medicare or Open Payments figures: we show the values CMS publishes and cannot change them. If we have copied or calculated a value incorrectly, report it to us. For an error in the source record, covered recipients can use the CMS Open Payments review and dispute process.
• Hiding a phone number, an address or a whole profile: Providers can request this under our voluntary directory opt-out policy through the Provider Data Update Request form. This policy does not limit any privacy rights you may have under applicable law. See Privacy Policy, Section 9.
• Errors in a guide or another text: Use the contact form or email support@true-medinfo.com. Include the page URL, the wording you believe is wrong, and a source supporting the correction. Please do not send medical records or private patient information. The site operator checks the report against the cited sources and corrects confirmed errors.