Entity Type 2: Organizations that render health care services, or furnish health care supplies to patients; e.g., hospitals, home health agencies, ambulance companies, health maintenance organizations, durable medical equipment suppliers, pharmacies and corporations formed when an individual incorporates.Solely owned corporations that are health care providers obtain NPIs as Entity Type 2. If the organization is a subpart, check yes and furnish the Legal Business Name (LBN) and Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) of the “parent” organization health care provider. (A subpart is a component of an organization health care provider. A subpart may be a different location or may furnish a different type of health care than the organization health care provider. For ease of reference, we refer to that organization health care provider as the “parent”.)
(courtesy of https://nppes.cms.hhs.gov/NPPES/Help.do?topic=SelectEntity)