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Practitioner Level Data (PLD) Insights report overview

Dive into PLD Insights concepts and requirements, and learn how the data can help you compliantly assess and optimize healthcare campaigns.

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PLD report overview

Practitioner Level Data (PLD) Insights are on-demand reports that include key details about healthcare professionals that you targeted in current and prior campaigns. Uncover ad-exposure and engagement data, demographic data, and physician-specialty data for your healthcare audiences. With these insights, you can compliantly assess and optimize your campaign’s targeting strategy while upholding stringent healthcare data-privacy regulations.

PLD report eligibility requirements

If you’re a healthcare advertiser and have signed IQM’s master service agreement (MSA), you may be eligible to generate a PLD report.

A campaign must also meet each of these conditions before it becomes eligible for PLD Insights reporting.

Requirement type

Requirement details

Campaign vertical

Healthcare*

Campaign status

Running

Expired (within the past two years)

Paused

Campaign duration

3 or more days

Audience type**

Matched audience created from NPI IDs

Matched audience created from raw data

*Healthcare: Any campaign created under a healthcare advertiser account is a “Healthcare” campaign.

**Audience type: The campaign must only include the audience types listed in this requirements table. For example, you cannot generate a PLD report for a campaign if it includes a matched audience created from NPI IDs and a retargeted audience consisting of your website’s past visitors.


PLD report pricing

There is a cost associated with generating a PLD report. You can reference its price after you enter key details—like the campaign’s total number of impressions and date range—and before you generate the report. We calculate these impressions on a CPM basis.

Refer to Generate or manage a Practitioner Level Data (PLD) report for more information on where to reference the report-price preview.

Price deduction - Sufficient funds

The workflow to generate a PLD Insights report ends with a Generate button that you can use to create your report. We’ll deduct the PLD Insights Cost from your account’s available balance once your report successfully generates. In most cases, this will take place immediately after you select Generate in the Generate Practitioner Level Data widget.

Refer to Generate or manage a Practitioner Level Data (PLD) Insights report for step-by-step instructions on creating a new report.

Price deduction - Insufficient funds

Funds notice: Organization administrators can add funds to an account. Contact yours to complete this process.

The workflow to generate a PLD Insights report ends with a Generate button that you can use to create your report. If your account’s available balance is less than the PLD Insights Cost, then this button will prompt you to add funds to your account instead. We’ll redirect you to enter a fund amount and select a payment method when you click Add Funds.

Pricing for PLD reports with overlapping datasets

There may be instances when you generate multiple PLD reports with partially overlapping date ranges for the same campaign. This means that the insight data also overlaps. You’ll pay only once for PLD Insights for each date.

Example: You generate two reports for the same campaign—one with a date range of August 1st-10th, and another with a date range of August 5th-20th. Since you already paid for the insights from August 1st-10th, we’ll only change you for a portion of the second report: the new data generated for the August 11th-20th date range. We’ll still aggregate data from the full August 5th-20th date range in the second report.

PLD report metrics

PLD reports return ad exposure metrics at a user level. If you used NPI data for audience creation, you can also reference each user’s NPI ID and multiple demographic data points.

Metric title

Description

Impressions

The number of times the user viewed your ad.

Clicks

The number of times the user clicked on your ad.

Conversions

The number of a user’s conversions that can be attributed to your ad.

Completes

The number of times that the video creative played for its entire duration.

NPI ID*

The 10-digit numeric identifier devoid of intelligence that’s used to correlate covered healthcare providers with their respective digital identities.

First Name

The user’s legal first name.

Last Name

The user’s legal last name.

Specialty Group

The primary medical specialty for which the user is licensed.

Primary Specialty

The branch of patients, diseases, or skills that the user evaluates, diagnoses, or manages at medical practice.

Secondary Specialty

The subspecialty that the user evaluates, diagnoses, or manages at a medical practice (e.g., Primary Specialty: Anesthesiology, Secondary Specialty: Pediatric Anesthesiology).

ZIP Code

The user’s permanent residence location details.

Age Group

The lower and upper ages that the user’s age falls into.

Gender

The user’s legal sex.

Dev Geo Lat

The latitudinal coordinates of the device that the ad was served on.

Dev Geo Lon

The longitudinal coordinates of the device that the ad was served on.

IP

The IP address that the device was connected to when the ad was served.

DMA

The Designated Market Area (DMA) that the campaign targeted, which is a region of the United States that Nielsen defined to measure local television viewership.

ZIP Code

The user’s permanent residence location details.

Exchange Name

The tech platform that made the buying and selling of ad inventory across ad networks possible.

Creative Type

The format of the ad creative (image, HTML, video, audio, or native).

Advertiser

The advertiser account that created the campaign.

Browser

The web browser that the ad was served on.

Creative Size

The dimensions of the ad.

Device Type

The category of device (TV, tablet, desktop, or mobile) that the ad was served on.

Device Manufacturer

The company that created the device that the ad was served on.

IAB Category

The IAB Tech Lab page-content category that the campaign targeted.

Device OS

The Operating System (OS) that the user was connected to when they were served the ad.

Carrier Name

The company that provided the cellular data necessary for the ad to serve over SMS, phone calls, or internet access.

*NPI ID: The NPI is a component of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and serves as a unique identification number for covered healthcare providers. Refer to What is NPI Matching? for more information.

PLD report statuses

You can review a PLD Insights report’s current status on the Practitioner Level Data page.

Status

Definition

Ready

Your insights are generated. You can view, download, or email the PLD report.

Processing

We’re working on generating your insights. Check back in about 15 minutes.

Failed*

You either encountered a technical error during report generation, or the campaign you selected is no longer eligible for PLD Insights. Try again in a few minutes to rule out a technical error.

* If a PLD report features a Failed status, no PLD Insights Cost will be deducted from the advertiser’s balance.


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