AUSTIN GATCHELL BA
NPI 1457137291
Occupational Therapist - Feeding, Eating & Swallowing in Boston, MA

NPI Status: Active since September 07, 2023

Contact Information

870 COMMONWEALTH AVE STE R
BOSTON, MA
ZIP 02215
Phone: (800) 736-3739

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Individual
Female
Occupational Therapist
Feeding, Eating & Swallowing

About AUSTIN GATCHELL

This page provides the complete NPI Profile along with additional information for Austin Gatchell, a provider established in Boston, Massachusetts with a medical specialization in Occupational Therapist, focusing in feeding, eating & swallowing . The healthcare provider is registered in the NPI registry with number 1457137291 assigned on September 2023. The practitioner's primary taxonomy code is 225XF0002X. The provider is registered as an individual and her NPI record was last updated 3 years ago.

NPI: 1457137291
Provider Name: AUSTIN GATCHELL BA
Gender: Female
Entity Type: Individual
Location Address: 870 COMMONWEALTH AVE STE R BOSTON, MA 02215
Location Phone: (800) 736-3739
Mailing Address: 11 SUNSET ST APT 1 BOSTON, MA 02120
Mailing Phone: (410) 624-8569
Is Sole Proprietor?: Yes
Enumeration Date: 09-07-2023
Last Update Date: 09-07-2023
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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: Occupational Therapist Feeding, Eating & Swallowing
Taxonomy Code: 225XF0002X
Type: Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
Taxonomy Description: Occupational therapists provide interventions to clients of all ages with feeding, eating and swallowing difficulties. Occupational therapists provide comprehensive rehabilitative, habilitative, and palliative dysphagia care, which includes collaborating with clients to provide individualized compensatory swallowing strategies, modified diet textures, adapted mealtime environments, enhanced feeding skills, preparatory exercises and positioning to clients, reinforcement of mealtime strategies to enhance and improve swallowing skills, and training to caregivers to enhance eating and feeding performance. Occupational therapists provide screening and in-depth clinical assessment which may include instrumental dysphagia assessments including videofluroscopy.

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 1457137291, we treat the final digit (1) 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 59. The final step is to find the difference between that total and the next multiple of ten (60 - 59 = 1).

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 → 10 → 1 + 0

Pos 4

Unchanged

Pos 5

Doubled → 2

Pos 6

Unchanged

Pos 7

Doubled → 14 → 1 + 4

Pos 8

Unchanged

Pos 9

Doubled → 18 → 1 + 8

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 5 → 10 → 1 1 → 2 7 → 14 → 5 9 → 18 → 9

Step 2: Add all digits plus the NPI constant

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

2 + 4 + 1 + 0 + 7 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 4 + 2 + 1 + 8 + 24 = 59

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

The next multiple of ten after 59 is 60. The difference is the calculated check digit.

60 - 59 = 1

This NPI is valid

The calculated check digit is 1, which matches the last digit of 1457137291.