--- title: Deceased Practitioner Data | Veritas Data Research description: Find deceased practitioners in your data. Veritas checks your list against 45,000+ death sources and captures 90%+ of deaths within two weeks. --- [![Veritas Logo](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Veritas%20Logo.png?width=200&height=51&name=Veritas%20Logo.png "Veritas Logo")](https://veritasdataresearch.com/) # Find the Practitioners on your list who have died Check your list against multi-source, verified death data, and ensure you're compliant with state and federal law. [Talk with our team](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/deceased-provider-data#contact-us) ## 19,701 deceased U.S. practitioners identified ## 8.25 died in the past year ## 3X more deaths identified than SSA data ## Your practitioner list goes stale with every death NPPES deactivation depends on someone reporting the death, so deceased practitioners can stay active. Most organizations check against the SSA Death Master File, which is incomplete on its own. ### Confident enough to act on Stopping payment, cancelling a prescription or removing a practitioner from a directory are decisions you need to get right. Veritas death data is multi-source, cross-verified and traceable, so you can act on a date of death with confidence. ### Multi-source Veritas draws on 45,000+ independent sources, not a single state or federal file, so coverage holds where any one source has gaps. ### Cross-verified Veritas checks each death across sources, and every match comes back with a match level and confidence, so you know how strong the evidence is before you act. ### Traceable Every record links back to its contributing source, so you can show exactly why you stopped a claim, a prescription or a directory listing. Case Study: Regional Healthcare Payer ### 19,701 deceased practitioners still in the national provider directory Veritas checked every practitioner in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) against its death data. 19,701 deceased practitioners found in NPPES 3x as many deaths as SSA data, which identified 6,475 1,626 died in the last 12 months (8.25%) Veritas   19,701 SSA data   6,475 For every practitioner death in SSA data, Veritas identifies three. Source: Veritas analysis of the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), October 2026. [Talk with our team](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/deceased-provider-data#contact-us) ## Who it's for ### Health plans Keep directories accurate and stop claims under a deceased practitioner's NPI before payment, including non-par and referring practitioners. ### Credentialing organizations Catch deaths at credentialing and between cycles, and give the plans you serve a more complete check than the SSA file alone. ### Provider data companies Keep the practitioner data your customers rely on accurate, with deceased practitioners flagged by NPI. ### State Medicaid agencies Extend the federally required death check beyond the Limited Access Death Master File and between revalidations. ## A compliant file today isn't a compliant file next month Verify cleans the file now. FOD Monitoring keeps it clean. ### FOD Verify Send your practitioner list: NPIs, names and dates of birth, or both. Each result comes back with a match level and confidence. ### FOD Monitoring Keep the list current, with alerts and full date of death as new deaths arrive. ### Provider Index file A scheduled file flagging every deceased practitioner in our Provider Index by NPI, with year of death. ### Trusted by teams at ![logo-evadata](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/hubfs/logo-evadata.svg) ![logo-atroposhealth](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/hubfs/logo-atroposhealth.svg) ![logo-moaa](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/hubfs/logo-moaa.svg) ![logo-cota](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/hubfs/logo-cota.svg) ![logo-loopback](https://resources.veritasdataresearch.com/hubfs/logo-loopback.svg) ### Compliance Collected, stored, and delivered through SOC2 Type II and HITRUST r2-certified workflows. 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