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  1. FHIR Specification Feedback
  2. FHIR-25580

Practitioner.identifier is constrained to an NPI

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    • Resolution: Not Persuasive with Modification
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    • US CARIN Real-time Pharmacy Benefit Check (RTPBC) (FHIR)
    • Pharmacy
    • RTPBC Practitioner Profile [deprecated]
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      Adopt the US Core Practitioner profile, which defines Practitioner.identifier as 1..* with a mandatory NPI slice. Constrain the profile further to make the cardinality 1..1

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      Adopt the US Core Practitioner profile, which defines Practitioner.identifier as 1..* with a mandatory NPI slice. Constrain the profile further to make the cardinality 1..1
    • Frank McKinney / Daniel Zhang : 12-0-0
    • Enhancement
    • Compatible, substantive
    • 0.1.0

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      Currently Practitioner.identifier is allowed to repeat but is constrained to NPI IDs. Is it likely that a provider will have multiple NPI IDs? Or can this be constrained to a single ID? Or should the NPI requirement just be a slice of .identifier?

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            craig.newman Craig Newman
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