MRF declares this hospital's Type 2 NPI

§180.50(b)(2)(i)(A)

What it checks

The price file lists this hospital's Type 2 National Provider Identifier, the number that identifies the hospital as an organization.

Checked by Care Carta. Care Carta's own check, for a requirement CMS's validator does not test.

How hospitals did

Passed 71%Blocked 11%Couldn't determine 17%

Results as of Oct 5, 2026. The most common reasons are on the Hospital and MRF information page.

How Care Carta decides

Passes when the MRF declares the facility's Type 2 NPI among any it lists. Indeterminate when it declares only other NPIs (NEEDS_HUMAN_REVIEW; a hospital may hold several), declares none (FILE_VALUE_MISSING), or CareCarta holds no NPI for the facility (REFERENCE_DATA_MISSING). Never fails. Judged from the header, so a file with malformed rows is still judged.

Scope: CMS validates that type_2_npi is present and well formed; CareCarta compares the NPIs the file declares with the facility's Type 2 NPI from CMS Hospital Enrollments.

Depends on: CareCarta read the MRF's header fields

Version

Ruleset

hpt-v3, version 3

Last changed in

Ruleset 2

CMS data dictionary

3.0.0

Check ID

hpt.mrf.identity.npi@1

Replaced

hpt.mrf.identity.matches_facility

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