No-Code Address Matching With Placekey

Matching the Same Facility Across Datasets

The hardest part of joining healthcare datasets is deciding when two records describe the same place. A hospital appears in a payer machine-readable file, in NPPES, and in an internal roster under three different names and three different address formats. Fuzzy string matching gets some of it and quietly misses the rest.

A shared place identifier gives every physical location one key, so the join is exact rather than approximate. Where this comes up:

• Joining payer files to internal data: Match MRF provider records against a roster you already maintain.
• Shared locations: Identify when multiple NPIs bill from the same facility.
• System consolidation: Collapse the locations of a hospital system into one entity for market share work.

Placekey is a free, universal standard identifier for any physical place, so that the data pertaining to those places can be shared across organizations easily. Placekey goes beyond just an identifier. It makes it easy to work with geospatial data that is easily joined and combined from many different sources. Here we show you how to use the Placekey API to solve common address matching problems.

Provider Website: https://placekey.io
‍Provider Enrichment Docs:https://docs.placekey.io/ ‍
‍Endpoint: https://api.placekey.io/v1/placekey
‍Registration Required: Yes (free)

View step-by-step instructions in this video: