Other Technician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A collective term for persons with specialized training in various narrow fields of expertise whose occupations require training and skills in specific technical processes and procedures; and where further classification is deemed unnecessary by the user.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this broad specialty, a sole-proprietor flag can indicate how the record holder describes its NPPES status, but it should not be read as a count of technicians working independently or operating a private office. The field is self-reported in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, or clinical independence.

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 a unique individual, clinic, or currently practicing provider.
• - The Other Technician taxonomy covers varied technical occupations, so its total may combine providers with different roles and practice settings.
• - NPPES records and taxonomy or address fields can change, and first-enumeration counts should not be treated as additions to the active provider total.
• 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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