Military Health Care Provider: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

Active duty military health care providers not otherwise classified who need to be separately identified for operational, clinical, or administrative processes.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 684 records, or 21.2%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. This self-reported field is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself show whether a provider works independently, owns a practice, or provides care outside military settings.

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 records and taxonomy assignments can change, and an active NPI record is not necessarily a count of unique people or current clinical activity.
• State counts reflect NPI data and may not represent where providers routinely practice or where services are delivered.
• 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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