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Blend actively maintains prescriber credential data rather than treating it as static text you typed once. Records are populated from the national NPI registry, DEA registrations are checked against the federal registry on a recurring schedule, and state license coverage is evaluated at fill time — so an order does not ship against a prescriber who isn’t properly licensed for that patient. You remain responsible for supplying and renewing state licenses. Blend’s job is to catch what’s missing, expired, or inconsistent before it becomes a compliance problem.

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What Blend maintains automatically

NPI registry population

Prescriber demographics and professional credentials are pulled from the national NPI registry, so names, credential types, and practice details come from the authoritative source rather than manual entry.

DEA registry monitoring

Blend sweeps the federal DEA registry on a recurring schedule, flagging registrations that are expired, inactive, or absent from the registry entirely.

State license coverage

At fill time, Blend checks that the prescriber holds a valid license covering the patient’s state. If not, the order is held rather than shipped.

Forward-looking refill risk

Blend predicts when each prescription is next due and warns when the covering license expires before then — see refill risk.

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What that means day to day

Orders hold instead of shipping. If a prescriber’s license is missing or expired for the relevant state, the order moves to exception rather than going out the door. Supply or renew the license and the order releases automatically — no need to ask for a re-check. See stuck orders. Credential problems surface before a fill is due. Rather than discovering an expired DEA registration when an order stalls, the recurring registry sweep raises it in advance. Duplicate manual entry is reduced. Because prescriber records draw on the NPI registry, you generally don’t need to key in credential details that are already public record.

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What you still need to supply

State licenses are yours to provide and renew. Blend cannot obtain state board licenses on your behalf — there is no single national source for them. Add and renew them through the API or the Blend Dashboard; see keeping prescriber state licenses current.
Also yours: which prescribers belong to your account, any prescribing restrictions you want enforced, and supervisory relationships where a prescriber practises under supervision.

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Checking status yourself

The second call is the one worth running on a schedule. It returns at_risk, a reason code of prescriber_unlicensed or prescriber_license_expiring, and the dates behind the judgment — enough to build a prioritized renewal worklist.
Prescriber records, licenses, and credential status are all visible in the Blend Dashboard under Prescribers. For compliance staff who don’t work in the API, that’s the day-to-day surface.

Get a prescriber's details

Licenses, credentials, restrictions

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Add or renew a state license

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