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