Teardown·Jul 12, 2026·4 min read
How we verify provider identity
Every identity field points back to an official registry with a verification date. Here is the pipeline, and exactly where the honesty lines are.
Resources · teardowns
How the data is actually made.
Engineering-honest teardowns of our verification pipeline — what we cross-check, where the honesty lines are, and how to reproduce every number from the live API.
Teardown·Jul 12, 2026·4 min read
Why an NPI is not a license
A National Provider Identifier is an administrative number, not proof of licensure or authority to practice. The distinction, from the source, and how we handle it.
Teardown·Jul 12, 2026·4 min read
How FDA warning-letter matching works
Turning "appears on an FDA warning-letter list" into a responsible data field is mostly about not getting it wrong. The pipeline, and how we handle false positives.