Community Health Clinic/Center: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 164 records, or 5.3%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. Because that flag is a self-reported NPPES field, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and should not be treated as a direct count of privately owned clinics, independent clinicians, or non-employed providers. It does not by itself describe ownership, staffing, contracting, or the number of practice locations.

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.
• - The NPI total counts records with this as the primary taxonomy; it is not necessarily a count of unique clinics, service sites, or individual clinicians.
• - NUCC has no published official definition for this classification, so the taxonomy label may not map cleanly to every organization described as a community health clinic or center.
• - NPPES taxonomy and sole-proprietor information are reported fields that may be incomplete, outdated, or not directly comparable with ownership and private-practice status.
• 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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