Nutrition Education Nutritionist: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 1,299 of 2,702 active records, or 48.1%, are flagged as sole proprietors. This is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice: it does not establish that a provider owns a practice, works independently, or has no other employment arrangement.

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.
• - The count covers active NPI records with this taxonomy as the primary classification, not necessarily every person who provides nutrition education.
• - NPI and taxonomy records can be updated, and a primary taxonomy may not capture all services or specialties associated with a provider.
• 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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