Neurology with Special Qualifications in Child Neurology Physician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A Child Neurologist specializes in neurology with special skills in diagnosis and treatment of neurologic disorders of the neonatal period, infancy, early childhood, and adolescence.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

In this specialty, 300 of the 2,115 records, or 14.2%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES; that figure is best read as a registry status, not a confirmed count of private-practice child neurologists. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, or how a physician practices.

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.
• • These are active NPI records, not necessarily unique physicians, and the primary taxonomy may not capture every clinician who provides child neurology care.
• • State counts reflect NPPES location information and should not be used as measures of patient volume, staffing, or 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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