You cannot register your clinic on ABDM until one person at the clinic has registered themselves first. ABDM's own procedure for verifiers puts it plainly: the manager of a health facility must create a Health Professional ID before the facility form will open. Clinics that do not know this sit on the login page for a week wondering which of the three portals is broken.
None of them is broken. As of 18 September 2026, facility.abdm.gov.in, hfr.abdm.gov.in and hpr.abdm.gov.in all bounce you to the same place, nhpr.abdm.gov.in, the National Healthcare Providers Registry. An old bookmark landing somewhere with a different name is expected behaviour.
Step one: one person gets a professional ID
Pick the person who will own this: usually the doctor who runs the clinic, sometimes the practice manager. They register with Aadhaar, give consent, verify the OTP sent to the Aadhaar-linked mobile, verify a second OTP on the mobile number they want on record, then choose a user ID, email and password. The ID is generated on screen.
This is an authentication credential, not a credential in the clinical sense. ABDM's FAQ describes it as the mechanism that stops an unauthorised person editing your facility's details. It costs nothing.
Step two: the facility form
Log back in, choose the role of Facility Manager, and pick "Register a new facility". The portal checks your facility name, state, district, city, address and village against what it already holds and warns you if it thinks you are a duplicate. Read that prompt properly. If your clinic is already listed because a state health department loaded it in bulk, claim the existing entry instead of creating a second one.
Then the form itself: facility details, services offered, infrastructure. Two things catch people out. One facility type only, out of the 34 in the list, so a clinic that also runs a small lab has to choose. And most of the form is self-declared and invisible to the verifier: bed counts, opening hours, specialities, whether you run ABDM-compliant software. The building photograph, board photograph and address proof are optional uploads, and the procedure says that if you leave them out, the details stand as self-certified.
Upload them anyway. They are the fastest way for a verifier who has never heard of your clinic to match your address to a map.
Sign the form digitally through the C-DAC e-sign facility and submit. You get a 12-digit facility ID beginning IN, and your clinic appears on the public search page straight away. ABDM's FAQ says the whole thing takes 20 to 30 minutes if you have the information at hand.
Step three: the verifier, which is the one you do not control
Your application now sits with a District Verifier appointed by your state's State Mission Director. Facilities owned by the central government go to a National Verifier instead. The verifier can approve, raise a query against any field, or reject with a reason. ABDM's instruction to them is to decide within 30 days of submission, and the National Health Authority emails them their pending counts.
Thirty days is the target, not a guarantee, and it is the step where small private clinics quietly wait longest. The verifier's own checklist is short: the name must be written out in full, the ownership type must be right, and the address you typed must match the address on the map. Verifiers are told not to reject over non-mandatory fields and to raise a query first. So a sloppy facility name or an address that does not resolve is what turns a two-week wait into a two-month one.
Until you are verified, you have an ID but you do not show on the public ABDM dashboard.
Step four: the doctors
The Healthcare Professionals Registry is a separate application with a separate verifier. Registration is checked by the concerned state medical council, which is the point of it: ABDM says the step exists so that unqualified people cannot onboard. Keep the registration certificate, the degree or diploma, and proof of employment if the doctor is a government employee ready before starting. ABDM's own estimate is 20 to 25 minutes to fill.
Both registries are voluntary. The catch is that once a private facility joins ABDM, the healthcare professionals working in it are required to register on the HPR. So if you register the clinic and stop, you have not finished. There is no fee for HPR registration or for generating the professional ID.
Last, link them. A doctor and a facility can each start a declaration of association, and the other side approves it. Doing this means your facility page shows who works there, and your own software has a professional ID to attach to records.
What being registered does not give you
An HFR entry is an identity, not an approval. The procedure for verifiers says so in as many words: HFR is not mandated to regulate or set standards for facilities. That job sits with laws like the Clinical Establishments Act, which is a separate registration with separate consequences and is covered in our guide to Clinical Establishment Act registration.
Nor does registration mean your records can move. Sending a prescription to a patient's health locker needs your software integrated with ABDM as a health information provider, which is a different problem with a different owner. That is the subject of our ABDM readiness checklist for electronic medical records, and the two articles are meant to be read together.
The ecosystem is not small any more. PIB reported on 22 May 2026 that over 100 crore health records have been linked with ABHA and that more than 450 public and private health technology solutions have integrated with ABDM. ABDM's public dashboard, checked on 18 September 2026, shows 34,750 privately owned clinics and dispensaries and 11,284 private dental clinics verified, against 3,494 and 25 government ones.
The incentive, as it stands today
The Digital Health Incentive Scheme has run since 1 January 2023 and has been amended seven times. Corrigendum 7, issued by the National Health Authority on 9 April 2026, is the version in force, and it says on its face that it runs from April 2026 till September 2026. As of this month there is no published successor, so treat anything after September as unsettled and check the scheme page before you plan around it.
Under Corrigendum 7, a facility needs a valid HFR ID, ABDM-enabled software linked to it, and bank details plus an undertaking and e-sign added through the HFR login. There is no minimum bed count. Nothing is paid on the first 100 eligible transactions in a month. Above that, a health facility earns Rs 10 for a KYC-verified ABHA-linked record whose type is a diagnostic report or discharge summary, and Rs 5 for other record types such as prescriptions, OP consultations, immunisation records and invoices. Consent-based sharing pays Rs 10 to the requesting party and Rs 5 to whoever holds the records.
The limits matter more than the rates for a small clinic. One incentivised transaction per ABHA per day, five per month. Scan & Share and health locker interactions earn nothing under this version. Records linked to an ABHA address that has not been KYC-verified earn nothing. Back-dated claims reach three months back, no further. The overall ceiling is Rs 5 crore per entity, which no clinic will meet, and Rs 1 crore for AB PM-JAY claims raised through NHCX.
ExaHealth is an ABDM-certified PHR and Health Locker. A clinic using it can link a patient's ABHA, pull and share records once the patient consents, and see its own activity tracked against the incentive scheme. It keeps a full audit trail of who opened which record and when, and the data sits in India. What no vendor can do for you is register the clinic: the HFR form, the e-sign and the professional registry applications are yours, and any software company offering to file them on your behalf is offering to use your Aadhaar-linked identity.
If you want someone to walk through which ABDM capabilities would be live for your setup once you are registered, talk to the ExaHealth team.
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100 crore health records linked to ABHA; 450+ integrated health technology solutions
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is ABDM registration free?
Yes. ABDM's FAQ states that registration in the ABDM system is free of cost, and separately that there is no fee for registering in the Healthcare Professionals Registry or for generating a Healthcare Professional ID. Nobody should be charging you a government fee for either application.
How long does it take?
Filling the HFR form takes 20 to 30 minutes if your details are at hand, and the professional registry application 20 to 25 minutes, by ABDM's own estimates. The waiting is in verification. Facility applications are meant to be decided within 30 days of submission, and professional applications go to your state medical council, which sets its own pace.
My application has been pending for weeks. What can I do?
Log in and check whether a verifier has raised a query against a field, because that stops the clock until you answer. If nothing is pending at your end, the escalation path runs through your district's nodal officer and the state ABDM team; the National Health Authority's facility helpdesk address is published in its procedure for verifiers.
Do all my doctors have to register separately?
Yes, and the registry checks them individually through their state medical council. Enrolment is voluntary in general, but ABDM's FAQ says that when a private facility joins ABDM, the healthcare professionals working in it are required to register on the Healthcare Professionals Registry.
Does an HFR ID mean my clinic is approved or accredited?
No. ABDM's procedure for verifiers says the registry is not mandated to regulate or set standards for facilities. Registration under the Clinical Establishments Act and your state's own rules is a separate matter with separate legal effect.