DoctorFinder provides you with basic professional information on virtually every licensed physician in the United States. This includes more than 690,000 doctors. AMA member physicians are offered an expanded listing that contains additional information such as office hours, accepted insurance providers, educational history and other helpful information.

Lists hospital professionals in the areas of executive management, general administrative and financial services, clinical services department and units, and support services departments by geographic area and hospital, by healthcare system headquarters, and by job function.
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Contains data on MD’s in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and certain Pacific Islands, or who are temporarily located in foreign countries. Includes both members and nonmembers of the AMA and graduates of foreign medical schools (FMG’s) who are recognized as international medical graduates (IMG’s) located in the U.S.

Also includes osteopathic physician members of the AMA. Organized geographically, data includes physician name and address, medical school, year of license, primary and secondary practice specialty, type of practice, American Specialty Board certification, and Physician’s Recognition Award.
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DocFinder contains the licensing background and disciplinary information of physicians. The only combined public online physician database in the nation that has its direct source of data from state government licensing boards and that also remains free of charge to the public.

Provides a list of physicians in the specialty and geographic area specified, along with detailed physician profiles, maps and driving directions.

The National Practitioner Databank (NPDB) is primarily an alert or flagging system intended to facilitate a comprehensive review of health care practitioners’ professional credentials.Access to information in the NPDB is available to entities that meet the eligibility requirements defined in the provisions of P.L. 99-660 and the NPDB regulations. In order to access information, entities must first register with the Data Bank. NPDB information is not available to the general public. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr), Office of Workforce Evaluation and Quality Assurance (OWEQA), Practitioner Data Banks Branch (PDBB) is responsible for the management of the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank.

Covers the specialities of allergy and immunology, anesthesiology, colon and rectal surgery, dermatology, emergency medicine, family practice, internal medicine, medical genetics, neurological surgery, psychiatry and neurology, nuclear medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, pathology, pediatrics, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, preventive medicine, radiology, surgery, thoracic surgery, and urology.
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Provides a list of Medicare/Medicad participating physicians in the specialty and geographic area specified, along with detailed physician profiles, maps and driving directions.

Provides healthcare professionals and other interested readers with a vehicle for identifying members of the medial community. Entires include name, professional certifications, career, and professional and association memberships, clubs, and lodges.
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U.S. News & World Report, in conjunction with the National Committe for Quality Assurance.

Information from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ).

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality everywhere. Since 1990, NCQA has assessed and reported on the quality of the nation’s managed care plans.

HealthDecisions.org aims to be the leading source of health care and insurance information available, while focusing on matching user needs with health care information. Produced by America’s Health Insurance Plans, a national organization representing over 1300 health insurance companies.

Minnesota Health Insurance Network (MNHI.net).