Non-Pharmacy Dispensing Site: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A site other than a pharmacy that dispenses medicinal preparations under the supervision of a physician to patients for self-administration. (e.g. physician offices, ER, Urgent Care Centers, Rural Health Facilities, etc.)

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor flag identifies an NPPES record reported as belonging to a sole proprietor, not every site that may be independently owned or privately operated. It is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice, especially because this taxonomy can apply to dispensing sites operated within larger healthcare organizations.

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.
• An NPI record is not necessarily one unique physical site, clinician, or dispensing operation.
• State assignment follows the NPI record's reported address and may not describe its full 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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