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Table 1 Comparison of address concordance among Nurse Practitioner and Physician LLR and NPI files with employment address locations recorded in state PCMH data file

From: Precision of provider licensure data for mapping member accessibility to Medicaid managed care provider networks

Provider

Scale

Address matchesa

With SPEDIS address matchingb

LLR (n, %)

NPI (n, %)

LLR (n, %)

NPI (n, %)

Nurse practitioner

 

Practice

3

1.9

72

44.4

8

4.9

103

63.6

City

36

22.2

115

71.0

–

 

–

 

ZIP code

58

35.8

124

76.5

–

 

–

 

County

104

64.2

140

86.4

–

 

–

 

Physician

 

Practice

506

57.5

416

47.3

627

71.3

632

71.8

City

700

79.6

702

79.8

–

 

–

 

ZIP code

752

85.5

776

88.2

–

 

–

 

County

784

89.1

810

92.0

–

 

–

 
  1. aAll percentages derived from an N of 880 for physicians and an N of 162 for nurse practitioners
  2. bAll fuzzy-matches using the SPEDIS procedure in SAS on practice-level comparisons were evaluated using a tolerance score of <= 32