# NIH NLM NPI Individual Healthcare Provider Search

> NIH NLM NPI Individual Healthcare Provider Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Searches the NIH NLM Clinical Tables service for individual healthcare providers (NPI) by term, returning matching NPI codes and display names.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-nlm-npi-individual
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nih-nlm-npi-individual-healthcare-provider-search-6b4ff580
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_bbCSfuxGJuhUVYgcgDkvl

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability nih-nlm-npi-individual-healthcare-provider-search-6b4ff580 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up the NPI number for an individual healthcare provider named 'John Smith MD' using the NIH NLM Clinical Tables NPI search?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to look up NPI numbers for individual healthcare providers (not organizations) without requiring an API key, using the authoritative NIH NLM Clinical Tables data source. Prefer this over full NPPES API integrations when you need a lightweight, no-auth search for clinical coding, billing, or credentialing workflows.

## Known failure modes

- No matching providers found for the given search term — returns empty result set
- Search term too vague or common — returns too many results with low specificity
- NIH NLM upstream service unavailable — proxy returns error
- Malformed request body or missing required fields — returns 400-level error
- Payment not completed — returns 402 Payment Required

## How this service works

Search Individual Healthcare Providers (NPI) from the NIH NLM Clinical Tables service by terms, no key. Returns matching codes and display names. For AI agents in health, coding, and clinical workflows.

## Output

Returns a list of matching individual healthcare provider records from the NIH NLM Clinical Tables NPI dataset, including NPI codes and human-readable display names corresponding to the search term.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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