How we find new healthcare businesses
The public records behind Texas Healthcare Report, how we decide what's new, and what we can't see.
What we read
- CMS NPPES National Provider Identifier registry (weekly file)
- Texas HHSC directory of licensed home and community support services agencies
- Texas HHSC directory of licensed assisted living facilities
Every healthcare organization that bills insurance needs a National Provider Identifier from the federal government, and CMS publishes each new one weekly. Texas home health, personal care and hospice agencies and assisted living facilities also need a state license, and HHSC publishes its license directories every week.
How we decide what's new
We read both every week and keep new organizations only: a new NPI for a business (never an individual clinician) and a first state license. Each is listed once, by its NPI or license number, with its category, city and ZIP.
What can go wrong
A registration or license date is not an opening day: some open weeks later, some already operate under another name. A sole-owner practice registered under a person's own name is left out, so no individual is named. Counts are what the records show; we don't rate anyone.
A record is a signal, not a promise. Some businesses open late, rename or never open. If a listing about your business is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it.
What this doesn't cover
What this covers. New healthcare organizations with a Texas practice address in the federal NPI registry, and new HHSC licenses for home and community support services agencies and assisted living facilities anywhere in Texas. Individual clinicians, and practices registered under a person's own name, are left out.
Sources: the federal NPPES National Provider Identifier registry (CMS) and Texas Health and Human Services Commission long-term care license directories. Written from the public records themselves; check with the agency for anything legal or binding.
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