It's official: NPDB, HIPDB have merged

The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) have merged into one data bank, to be called the NPDB. The merger went into effect May 6.

There is no change to the reporting workflow or requirements, but users’ query results may include reports that were not previously available to them, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website. Information previously collected and disclosed through the HIPDB will now be collected and disclosed through the NPDB. Users may see federal and health plan actions/decisions in their query results that were previously available only through querying the HIPDB. Currently there are no plans to change the query fees, according to HHS.

Source: HHS