Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A supplier of medical equipment such as respirators, wheelchairs, home dialysis systems, or monitoring systems, that are prescribed by a physician for a patient's use in the home and that are usable for an extended period of time.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 2,683 records, or 3.0%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. The field is self-reported and is an imperfect proxy for private practice, because it does not by itself establish ownership, independence, staffing model, or whether a supplier operates as a one-person business.

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.
• - Active NPI counts are records, not necessarily distinct businesses or locations, and they do not measure equipment volume, revenue, capacity, or patient volume.
• - A primary taxonomy reflects the classification recorded for the NPI and may not capture every service or product offered by a supplier.
• 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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