Adult Health Nurse Practitioner: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Adult Health Nurse Practitioner records, the 20.9% sole-proprietor share means that 6,474 active records are flagged that way in NPPES. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice, so it may not fully reflect 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.
• An NPI record is not a direct measure of a clinician's current patient-care activity.
• The primary taxonomy is a classification choice and may not reflect every service or specialty 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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