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Your career should not be reduced to an outdated listing.

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Claim a verified Guide.md profile, correct the facts, and give patients, search engines and AI assistants a clearer source about your work.

Search your name. Claim only if you want to change what it says.

Have your NPI? Search by NPI · Claiming is free · no ID for a practice or institutional email · about 2 minutes

Your online identity was assembled without you

Every provider with an NPI already has a public record: a specialty, a practice address, Medicare billing patterns, hospital affiliations. Directories copy it, scrape each other, and let it go stale. When a patient, a referring colleague, an attorney or an AI assistant asks about you, that patchwork is what answers.

Doctors do not have a website problem. They have an identity problem: the facts about their work live in places they do not control.

Correct the record in four steps

  1. Find your profile. Search your name and state, or your NPI. The record is already there.
  2. Verify that it is yours. Signed up with your practice, hospital or institutional address? Type your name and the profile is yours, free, no document. Otherwise confirm your name and send it for review; we look within a few days.
  3. Correct and complete it. Photo, biography, the conditions and procedures you actually treat, locations, languages, insurance, telehealth, FAQs, and the listings you opt into.
  4. Keep one source current. Edit any time; a monthly report tells you who looked, including AI crawlers, and the one field to add next. Verified status renews yearly at no cost.

See what Guide.md already says about you. Search your name; claim only if you want to change it.

Have your NPI? Search by NPI · Claiming is free · no ID for a practice or institutional email · about 2 minutes

What you control

  • Core facts: name, credentials, specialty, locations, phone, public email.
  • Biography and care philosophy, in your own words.
  • Conditions and procedures you confirm, which lists you among verified providers on those pages.
  • Badges with their own listing pages: accepting new patients, telehealth, expert witness, treats on lien, industry consultant, appointment requests.
  • An appointment-request form that emails your office; every request kept for you.
  • Which registry facts to hide, and what to correct when a public-source refresh disagrees with you.

How ordering works on Guide.md

  1. Relevance first. Directory results and listing pages are ordered by how well a record matches what was searched: name, specialty, place, condition or procedure. The sort in use is shown on the page (Verified first, Most experience, Name A–Z).
  2. Verified profiles list ahead of unverified records. Among equally relevant results the order is Claimed (confirmed by the provider), then Enriched (editor-curated), then registry-only records. Confirming a condition or procedure on your profile lists you among the verified providers on that page. This preference comes from verification, never from payment.
  3. Completeness is a meter, not a rank. The completeness score is shown to the owner to guide editing; it does not change ordering.
  4. Paid plans change what a profile can hold, not where it sits. Pro and Premium add media, FAQs, badges and listing pages, and raise how many condition and procedure pages you can confirm (10, 30, unlimited). Verified status lasts twelve months and is renewed at no cost by confirming from your account that the profile is still current; any payment renews it automatically. A paid plan never moves a profile above another verified profile.
  5. Featured placements are labeled and separate. They are paid, marked "Featured", shown in their own slot above the results, and never change the ordering beneath them.

Search engines and AI assistants make their own ranking decisions. Nothing on Guide.md changes those; a complete, verified profile is a better source for them, not a guarantee.

Make your information easier to understand, not easier to exaggerate

We can't promise what Google, ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity will say about you; nobody outside those companies can. What a claimed profile does is publish a structured, current, verified source, in the vocabulary those systems parse, and show you when their crawlers read it.

Verification confirms who controls the profile. It does not certify clinical quality, outcomes or licensure, and the profile never says it does. Verification standards.

Start with the facts. Add depth when you need it.

Claiming is free. Pro ($20 a month) and Premium ($49 a month) add media, more confirmed pages, the AI writer, analytics and the paid listings; they never change where you sit in results. Plans and pricing.

Agencies and practice staff: claim on the provider's behalf, they approve from an email and confirm their own name, and every account an agency brings earns 20% for 24 months through the referral program.

Questions

Where do unclaimed profiles come from?

From the NPPES NPI registry and CMS public datasets, refreshed weekly. An unclaimed profile is the public record, labeled as such; it is never presented as provider-confirmed.

Can I remove or correct an unclaimed profile?

Claim it and correct it, or use the correction form on the profile. Registry facts are public data; what you write on a claimed profile is yours.

Is the completeness score a rating?

No. It is shown to the owner to guide editing and never changes ordering or says anything about clinical quality.

Does claiming get me ranked higher on Google?

No one can promise that. Claiming gives search engines and AI assistants a structured, verified source; the site itself lists verified profiles ahead of unverified records, and that preference comes from verification, not payment.

Claim the profile first. Decide what else you need afterward.

See what Guide.md already says about you. Search your name; claim only if you want to change it.

Have your NPI? Search by NPI · Claiming is free · no ID for a practice or institutional email · about 2 minutes

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Last reviewed: September 2026.

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