Critical Care Medicine Registered Nurse: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the 34.0% share is the portion of active records with this primary taxonomy that NPPES flags as sole proprietors. Because the field is self-reported, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and should not be treated as a definitive count of independent clinicians, practices, or employment 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.
• NUCC does not publish an official definition for this taxonomy, so the label is not a detailed description of services.
• The count covers active NPI records with this taxonomy as the primary classification and does not measure clinical workload, staffing, or patient volume.
• 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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