Healthcare Directory

Physicians and Allied-Healthcare Professionals

The RH Physician and Allied-Healthcare Professional Healthcare Directory is made up of healthcare providers across more than a hundred medical and healthcare specialties. To be eligible for inclusion in the directory providers must...

have an active New York State License through the NYS Office of the Professions
have an Individual National Provider Identifier (NPI) through the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES)
participate with CAQH ® and have a completed, up-to-date CAQH ® application
be present on the RCIPA/Rochester Health CAQH ® Provider Roster
Authorize Rochester Health access to the CAQH ® application by selecting RCIPA/Rochester Health in the Authorization tab of the CAQH-UPD®.

Rochester Health uses both the NPI Registry and CAQH ® data sources to obtain directory listing information. The following table illustrates what information Rochester Health obtains from each data source:

NPPES

CAQH

Provider identifying information such as first name, last name, suffix (I, II, Sr. etc.), gender and credentials (MD, DO etc.)

Provider-related information such as practice specialty, board certification, medical school and languages spoken.

Practice-related information such as address, telephone number etc.

It is important that both of the above sources are kept up to date to ensure your directory listing is accurate.

CAQH ® Directory Listing Hints: get the most out directory listings by maximizing the potential of CAQH ®:

Practice Name: enter the practice name that is most widely associated with the practice
Practice Address: enter up-to-date address information as directory listings can be linked to Google Maps™
Ensure that provider NPI and New York State license information is entered correctly in CAQH®

Rochester Health uses CAQH as the primary source of directory practice information for physicians and allied-health professionals. Since CAQH® does not have an explicit field for practice websites Rochester Health developed a relatively straight-foward method of linking practice websites to practice locations for practices wishing to have a link to their website displayed in their directory listing. Rochester Health has decided to use the practice telephone number as a method to associate practice websites with practice locations for purposes of the healthcare directory; therefore practices wishing to have a link to their practice website displayed in their directory listing are asked to contact Rochester Health and to include your practice telephone number with area-code as it is reflected in CAQH® along with your practice website address. Rochester Health will display the website submitted for all practices having the submitted telephone number.

For information on the NPI and CAQH ® please visit their websites: