Basic Emergency Medical Technician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A Basic EMT is an individual trained and certified to perform basic life support treatment in medical emergencies based on individual state boards.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

Among Basic Emergency Medical Technician records, 632 of 2,258 active records, or 28.0%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. This self-reported field is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it may not reflect employment arrangements, organizational relationships, or how a provider delivers care.

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.
• These figures cover active NPI records with this taxonomy as the primary classification, so they do not represent every person who may perform basic EMT work.
• State counts and first-enumeration counts describe NPPES registration patterns, not clinical workload, staffing, service volume, or patient demand.
• 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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