Authorized official
The authorized official is a contact on the organization record. Listing them does not make the organization's NPI a Type 1 NPI.
Source: NPPES data dissemination readme, October 12, 2026 V2.
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Authorized official
An authorized official is the person an organization names who can act for it on the NPI application or the Medicare enrollment. On a Type 2 NPI the public record can list that person's name and title. That person may also have their own Type 1 NPI, which is a different number. The lookup is at /npi-lookup.
Questions
Authorized official, answered
Is the authorized official's name the organization's NPI?
No. The organization has the Type 2 NPI. The official is a person named on that record.