How It Works

Every NPI search is an
investigation.

Provider directories are unreliable. Addresses are wrong, outdated, or copied from federal databases that haven't been updated in years. Health plans need to know where providers actually practice — not where paperwork says they do.

PracFind deploys a team of specialized agents — each named after a character from the world of Sherlock Holmes — to investigate, verify, and monitor every provider location. Here's how they work.

The Team

Six agents. One verified answer.

Each agent specializes. Together they handle discovery, verification, and ongoing monitoring — so you never have to second-guess a provider's location.

Sherlock
Sherlock
Lead Investigator
Searches the web for evidence of where a provider actually practices. Reads websites, extracts addresses, separates real locations from noise.
Mycroft
Mycroft
Memory Palace
Sherlock's brother. Quietly crawls healthcare websites in the background, building a cache of provider locations before anyone asks. If Mycroft knows the answer, Sherlock doesn't search at all.
Watson
Watson
The Verifier
Patrols the database nightly, re-checking sources to make sure addresses haven't changed. If a provider moves or a clinic closes, Watson catches it.
Moriarty
Moriarty
Ghost Hunter
Checks every provider against deactivation records (340,000+ NPIs). Catches deceased or retired providers still listed as active — the ghost listings that plague provider directories.
Lestrade
Lestrade
The Enforcer
Checks providers against federal exclusion lists and state licensing boards. Catches practitioners who've been disciplined, excluded, or lost their license.
Mrs. Hudson
Mrs. Hudson
The Housekeeper
Runs weekly maintenance — cleaning up stale data, generating health reports, making sure everything stays tidy. The quiet force that keeps the whole operation running.
Two Cases, One Team

Whether the case is clean or messy, the answer comes back verified.

Here are two real investigations. One is a quick confirmation. The other is a hard dig through a wall of noise. Watch how the team works each one.

Case A — The Quick Confirmation

Dr. Robert Stoler, DO

NPI 1992779839 · Internal Medicine · Dallas, TX
A health plan needs to verify where Dr. Stoler practices. The federal registry lists one registered address. The plan needs to know where he really sees patients.
  1. Mycroft · speaks first
    Before Sherlock even starts, Mycroft checks his memory. He's already crawled healthcare websites across Texas and has Dr. Stoler's practice locations on file. Cached intelligence from multiple sources.
  2. Sherlock · cross-references
    Sherlock pulls the federal registry record and compares it to Mycroft's findings. A targeted web search confirms every location with an independent source. Multiple sources agreeing = high confidence.
  3. Lestrade · credentials
    License in good standing. No exclusions. No disciplinary actions. Clear to verify.
  4. Moriarty · ghost check
    Cross-referenced against 340,000+ deactivation records. Dr. Stoler is alive and active. Not a ghost listing.
  5. Watson · takes the watch
    The verified locations enter Watson's nightly patrol. If any of these clinics close or the provider moves, Watson will catch it and re-open the case.
5 5 verified locations in Dallas · score 100 ⏱ seconds
Case B — Cutting Through the Noise

Dr. Syed Abdallah, MD

NPI 1083134555 · Internal Medicine · Tampa, FL
A credentialing team searches for Dr. Abdallah. Sounds simple. It's not — his name sits in a sea of aggregator sites, stale directory echoes, and scraped garbage pages.
  1. Mycroft · comes up empty
    No cache hit. Dr. Abdallah doesn't appear in Mycroft's memory palace. This is a cold case. Sherlock has to investigate from scratch.
  2. Sherlock · searches the web
    The internet returns results — but most of them are noise. Aggregators that scrape federal data and repackage it. Directories that list every provider in America with no actual confirmation. Pages that mash phone numbers, button text, and hospital names into one garbage string.
Noise
87.5%
Signal
12.5%
  1. Sherlock · filters
    Aggregator sites? Blocked — PracFind maintains a list of 90+ domains that just echo federal data. Garbage strings with button text and phone fragments? Caught and rejected. A site that lists 50,000 providers with no original reporting? Filtered — not a real source.
  2. Sherlock · what's left
    After the noise is stripped away, one verified source remains — and it independently confirms the registered Tampa address. Not a federal echo. An independent confirmation.
  3. Watson · takes the watch
    The verified address enters nightly patrol. If the source page changes — if the clinic closes, if the provider moves — Watson will catch it and flag the record.
7 : 1 noise filtered · 1 verified location remains ⏱ seconds

Whether it's a quick confirmation or a deep investigation, the result is the same: verified provider locations, delivered in seconds.

90+Aggregator domains filtered
340K+Deceased records checked
NightlyVerification patrols
SecondsNot days

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