Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 4,074 records, or 33.9%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. Because the flag is a self-reported NPPES field, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, independence, or whether the provider works exclusively in private practice.

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 with this taxonomy as primary, not a direct census of unique practicing clinicians or service capacity.
• NPPES taxonomy and sole-proprietor fields depend on submitted information and can be updated; the sole-proprietor field is not proof of private-practice ownership.
• NUCC has not published an official definition for this taxonomy, so comparisons with broader descriptions of psychiatric or mental health nursing may not be exact.
• 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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