SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
NPI 1124492285
General Acute Care Hospital in Brooklyn, NY

NPI Status: Active since November 30, 2015

Contact Information

450 CLARKSON AVE
BOX 50
BROOKLYN, NY
ZIP 11203
Phone: (718) 270-4217

NPI Profile Information
Primary Taxonomy
Authorized Official
Inpatient Rehabilitation Information
NPI Validation
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Frequently Asked Questions

Organization
General Acute Care Hospital

About SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER

This page provides the complete NPI Profile along with additional information for Suny Downstate Medical Center, a provider established in Brooklyn, New York operating as a General Acute Care Hospital. The healthcare provider is registered in the NPI registry with number 1124492285 assigned on November 2015. The practitioner's primary taxonomy code is 282N00000X with license number 33337543 (NY). The provider is registered as an organization and their NPI record was last updated 11 years ago. The authorized official of this NPI record is Dr. Mafuzur Rahman Md (Vice Chairman, Dept Of Medicine)

NPI: 1124492285
Provider Name: SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
Entity Type: Organization
Location Address: 450 CLARKSON AVE BOX 50 BROOKLYN, NY 11203
Location Phone: (718) 270-4217
Mailing Address: 450 CLARKSON AVE BOX 50 BROOKLYN, NY 11203
Mailing Phone: (718) 270-4217
Is Sole Proprietor?: No
Is Organization Subpart?: No
Enumeration Date: 11-30-2015
Last Update Date: 11-30-2015
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According to the Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) Compare program data this facility is government and was certified on 01-01-1986 This facility might have treated people with Medicare who had these medical conditions during the last year: all other conditions, brain disease or condition (non-traumatic), brain injury (traumatic), hip or femur fracture, hip or knee replacement, amputation or other bone or joint condition, nervous system disorder (excluding stroke), spinal cord disease or condition (non-traumatic), spinal cord injury (traumatic) and stroke

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Specialty - Primary Taxonomy

The NPI enumerator requires providers to submit at least one taxonomy code. A taxonomy code is a unique 10-character code that describes the healthcare provider type, classification, and the area of specialization. There could be only one primary taxonomy code per NPI record. For individual NPIs the license data is associated to the taxonomy code.

Classification: General Acute Care Hospital
Taxonomy Code: 282N00000X
Type: Hospitals
License No.: 33337543
License State: NY
Taxonomy Description: An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.

Authorized Official

The authorized official is the designated individual with the legal authority to make changes to the provider’s official NPI record. For organizations, the authorized official must be a general partner, chairman of the board, CEO, CFO or a direct owner holding at least a 5 percent stake in the medical organization.

Authorized Official Name: DR. MAFUZUR RAHMAN MD
Authorized Official Title: VICE CHAIRMAN, DEPT OF MEDICINE
Authorized Official Phone: (718) 270-4217

Inpatient Rehabilitation Information

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF) data provides information on the quality of care that rehabilitation facilities are providing to their patients. This information can help consumers make informed decisions about health care.

SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER has an ownership type of Government
The facility received it's medicare certification date on 01-01-1986

Rehabilitation facility number of episodes of treated medical conditions.
Medical Condition	Times Conditions Treated
All other conditions	Less than 11 - The number of cases/patient stays is too small to report.
Brain disease or condition (non-traumatic)	Less than 11 - The number of cases/patient stays is too small to report.
Brain injury (traumatic)	Less than 11 - The number of cases/patient stays is too small to report.
Hip or femur fracture	Less than 11 - The number of cases/patient stays is too small to report.
Hip or knee replacement, amputation or other bone or joint condition	27
Nervous system disorder (excluding stroke)	11
Spinal cord disease or condition (non-traumatic)	Less than 11 - The number of cases/patient stays is too small to report.
Spinal cord injury (traumatic)	Less than 11 - The number of cases/patient stays is too small to report.
Stroke	56

NPI NPI Number Validation

How NPI Validation Works

The NPI validation process uses the ISO-standard Luhn algorithm, a mathematical "handshake", to ensure that a provider's 10-digit ID is authentic and free of common typing errors.

To verify the NPI 1124492285, we treat the final digit (5) as the Check Digit—the target answer we need to reach. The process begins by taking the first nine digits and adding a constant value of 24, which accounts for the "80840" prefix required for all U.S. health identifiers. We then double every other digit starting from the right and sum the individual digits of those results together. For this specific NPI, that total comes to 65. The final step is to find the difference between that total and the next multiple of ten (70 - 65 = 5).

Digit-by-digit view

Use the first nine digits for the calculation. Starting from the right, double every other digit. The last digit is the check digit and is not part of the calculation.

Pos 1

Doubled → 2

Pos 2

Unchanged

Pos 3

Doubled → 4

Pos 4

Unchanged

Pos 5

Doubled → 8

Pos 6

Unchanged

Pos 7

Doubled → 4

Pos 8

Unchanged

Pos 9

Doubled → 16 → 1 + 6

Check

Target digit

Regular digit Doubled digit Check digit

Step 1: Double every other digit from the right

Starting with the rightmost digit of the first nine digits, double every other value. If doubling creates a two-digit number, add those digits together.

1 → 2 2 → 4 4 → 8 2 → 4 8 → 16 → 7

Step 2: Add all digits plus the NPI constant

Add the transformed values, the unchanged digits, and the constant 24.

2 + 1 + 4 + 4 + 8 + 9 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 6 + 24 = 65

Step 3: Find the amount needed to reach the next multiple of 10

The next multiple of ten after 65 is 70. The difference is the calculated check digit.

70 - 65 = 5

This NPI is valid

The calculated check digit is 5, which matches the last digit of 1124492285.