Adult Companion: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An individual who provides supervision, socialization, and non-medical care to a functionally impaired adult. Companions may assist or supervise the individual with such tasks as meal preparation, laundry and shopping, but do not perform these activities as discrete services. These services are provided in accordance with a therapeutic goal in the plan of care.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Adult Companion, 3,718 active records, or 32.0%, have the NPPES field marked as sole proprietor. This self-reported field can help describe the specialty's business-registration profile, but it is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not fully identify ownership, employment, or practice arrangements.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• NPI records do not necessarily represent unique people, organizations, service locations, or active service capacity.
• The primary taxonomy is an NPPES classification and may not capture every service a provider offers.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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