AFFILIATION_TABLE

This table reveals provider affiliations with relevant practice patterns to better articulate the nuance of affiliation.

Queries that source from AFFILIATION_TABLE table

What is in the AFFILIATION_TABLE table?

As we have all experienced, nailing a precise understanding of individual provider affiliation is a difficult task.

This table does its best to reveal relevant practice patterns to articulate the nuance of affiliation, while also giving users the ability to report/adjust where they feel the system_affiliation is off.

Results are returned as a json, pySpark DataFrame, or pandas DataFrame (default).

feature

description

example

hcp_npi

National Provider Identifier for individual providers.

1003002783

hcp_name

Full name of the corresponding individual provider.

matthew hartman

hcp_taxonomy

Primary taxonomy code of the individual provider

111N000000X

hcp_state

US State code of the NPPES registered provider address
⚠️ (may differ from actual practice location)

PA

hcp_short_zip

Short zip code of the NPPES registered provider address
⚠️ (may differ from actual practice location)

152

system_affiliation

Anticipated health system affiliation of the individual provider derived from their practice patterns and reported affiliation.

allegheny health network

affiliation_confounded

Binary indicator of whether provider practice patterns indicate multiple affiliations or absence of a reliable behavioral indicator of affiliation.

0

primary_hco_npi

National Provider Identifier (NPI) of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

1194744805

primary_hco_name

Name of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

west penn allegheny
health system inc

primary_hco_system

Health system affiliation of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

allegheny health network

primary_hco_encounters

Number of encounters seen by individual provider at the primary_hco within the lookback window.

2995

primary_hco_proportion

Proportion of encounters seen by individual provider at the primary_hco compared to all other hco's, within the lookback window.

0.33

secondary_hco_npi

National Provider Identifier (NPI) of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the second most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

1992183164

secondary_hco_name

Name of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the second most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

west penn allegheny
health system inc

secondary_hco_system

Health system affiliation of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the second most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

allegheny health network

secondary_hco_encounters

Number of encounters seen by individual provider at the secondary_hco within the lookback window.

1915

secondary_hco_proportion

Proportion of encounters seen by individual provider at the secondary_hco compared to all other hco's, within the lookback window.

0.21

tertiary_hco_npi

National Provider Identifier (NPI) of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the third most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

1285667493

tertiary_hco_name

Name of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the third most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

west penn allegheny
health system inc

tertiary_hco_system

Health system affiliation of the facility/department where the individual provider performed the third most encounters within one year of the indicated lookback year/quarter.

allegheny health network

tertiary_hco_encounters

Number of encounters seen by individual provider at the tertiary_hco within the lookback window.

1648

tertiary_hco_proportion

Proportion of encounters seen by individual provider at the tertiary_hco compared to all other hco's, within the lookback window.

0.18

lookback_period

End year-quarter value of the 1-year lookback period. Per the example, affiliation is calculated using encounters from the start of Q3-2022 to the start of Q3-2023.

'Q3-2022 to Q3-2023'

current

Binary indicator as to whether the period is the most recent recorded within CareQuery.

1

Helper Function within the CareQuery API to help understand the underlying AFFILIATION_TABLE dataset.

# import package
from care_query.care_query import CareQuery

# instantiate and connect
cq = CareQuery(email = "your-email", 
               token = "your-api-token")

# return details 
print(cq.glossary.table_detail('AFFILIATION_TABLE'))