Foot Surgery Podiatrist: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 732 records, or 27.3%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and is an imperfect proxy for private practice, not a direct measure of independent ownership, employment status, or practice setting. Use it to describe how records are classified in NPPES rather than to infer why providers are organized that way.

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.
• NPPES is an administrative registry, not a complete census of practicing providers or practices.
• The counts include records with 213ES0131X as the primary taxonomy and exclude providers listing it only as a secondary taxonomy.
• State totals reflect NPI registration data and may not represent provider availability, ownership, or patient service area.
• 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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