North Dakota Healthcare Intel

The North Dakota Health and Human Services department provides codes, licensing and regulation information for evaluating inpatient care facilities and outpatient programs, including their programs, services, staff, buildings and equipment.

The Public Health Division's webpages now offer fast, easy access to current health information spanning respiratory illness updates, age-specific health topics, infectious diseases, and immunizations.

The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services maintains a webpage dedicated to licensing, regulation, and certification information for healthcare providers.

Starting in 2026, some individuals will see changes to their Medicaid eligibility in North Dakota.

The North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services provides access to the CMS-10114 National Provider Identifier (NPI) Application/Update Form for healthcare providers.

OSHA inspections of healthcare facilities most commonly find three violations: an Exposure Control Plan that has not been reviewed annually (date-stamped review required), engineering controls that have not been re-evaluated when new devices are introduced, and post-exposure protocols that do not match the actual reporting workflow.

Across most payors, the top-five denial reasons account for over 80% of prior-auth rejections: missing clinical documentation, wrong CPT/HCPCS code, service not in benefit plan, step-therapy not completed, and ordering provider not on the patient's plan. The same five repeat across plans because they are the easiest to deny on automation.

A vendor is a business associate if they create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI on behalf of the covered entity. They are NOT a business associate just because they happen to be in a building with PHI or could conceivably access it. The functional test matters, not the proximity test.