Location is used differently across the FHIR outputs. In Bulk Medication History it is a standalone resource serving two purposes — the prescriber’s office and the dispensing pharmacy. In the Patient Everything and Patient Summary bundles it represents the facility where a clinical activity took place and is contained rather than standalone. The Stable ID and Fields sections below cover both, with a column per output.

Stable ID

Output	Recipe
Patient Everything / Summary	No `id` is assigned. `Location` is contained inside the PractitionerRole referencing it, which is in turn contained inside the clinical resource — so the same real-world facility appears as a separate contained `Location` under every record associated with it.
Bulk Med History	Fixed to one of two patterns, both tied to the specific medication record rather than to the real-world address or pharmacy: `prescriberLocation-{medicationUniqueId}` for the prescriber’s office, `pharmacyLocation-{medicationUniqueId}` for the dispensing pharmacy.

Neither id scheme deduplicates by real-world identity. In the bundles, the same facility appears as a separate contained Location under every record associated with it. In Bulk Med History, the same real-world office or pharmacy appears as a separate Location resource for every medication associated with it — resources are not deduplicated by address or NCPDP ID.

Fields

Field	Patient Everything / Summary	Bulk Med History	Notes
`meta.profile`	1..1	1..1	Always set to the US Core Location profile URL.
`status`	1..1	1..1	Always `active`.
`name`	0..1	0..1	Bundles: the facility name, when known. Bulk Med History: for the prescriber’s office, the prescriber’s last name (no separate practice/facility name is available); for the pharmacy, the pharmacy’s store name.
`address`	0..1	0..1	Street line(s), city, state, and postal code. In the bundles, blank street lines are dropped. Unlike Patient, `country` is not set in either output.
`identifier` (NCPDP)	0..0	0..0 for the office; 1..1 for the pharmacy	Bulk Med History only, using the NCPDP Provider ID system. Only populated for the pharmacy `Location`, not for the prescriber’s office. Not populated in the bundles.
`identifier` (NPI)	0..0	0..1	Bulk Med History only, when the pharmacy’s NPI is present. Only populated for the pharmacy `Location`, not for the prescriber’s office. Not populated in the bundles.
`type`	0..0	0..1	Bulk Med History only, fixed to `OUTPHARM` (“outpatient pharmacy”) from the HL7 v3 RoleCode system. Only populated for the pharmacy `Location`, not for the prescriber’s office. Not populated in the bundles.
`telecom` (phone / fax)	0..0	0..1 each	Bulk Med History only, and only for the pharmacy `Location`. The prescriber’s phone/fax appear on PractitionerRole instead, not on the office `Location`. Not populated in the bundles — the facility’s phone/fax appear on the surrounding `PractitionerRole` there too.

In the bundles, a Location is only produced when the facility has a name or an address. managingOrganization and position are not populated in either output.

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