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Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center is a NUCC classification for an entity, facility, or distinct facility part providing diagnostic, treatment, and prescriptive services for mental and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. This page summarizes active US NPI records with this classification as the primary taxonomy and shows the records flagged as sole proprietors, helping readers assess the specialty's reported footprint.

National totals

Active NPI records4,529
Registered sole proprietors156 (3.4%)
NUCC taxonomy code261QM0855X
GroupingAmbulatory Health Care Facilities

What this specialty covers

An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, and prescriptive services related to mental and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents. Services may be provided to parents and family members of the patient in the form of conjoint, group, or individual therapy, and education and/or training.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor share indicates how many records are marked that way in NPPES, not how many clinics operate as private practices. The field is self-reported and can miss ownership, employment, or organizational arrangements, so it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and should be read as a descriptive indicator rather than a definitive ownership measure.

By state

StateActive NPIsSole proprietorsShare
California681<11not reported
Illinois285<11not reported
Pennsylvania264<11not reported
Florida220<11not reported
Texas212<11not reported
Maryland209<11not reported
North Carolina183<11not reported
Minnesota1752313.1%
New York156149.0%
New Jersey135<11not reported
Michigan121<11not reported
Ohio1131715.0%
Massachusetts108<11not reported
Georgia107<11not reported
Virginia97<11not reported
Arizona96<11not reported
Colorado89<11not reported
Wisconsin87<11not reported
Washington80<11not reported
Oregon74<11not reported
Connecticut71<11not reported
Alabama63<11not reported
Utah61<11not reported
Nevada61<11not reported
Missouri54<11not reported
Arkansas52<11not reported
South Carolina45<11not reported
Louisiana45<11not reported
Idaho44<11not reported
Indiana44<11not reported
New Mexico42<11not reported
Oklahoma40<11not reported
Nebraska38<11not reported
Hawaii32<11not reported
Tennessee31<11not reported
Delaware25<11not reported
Kentucky25<11not reported
Montana24<11not reported
Iowa23<11not reported
Kansas22<11not reported
Mississippi21<11not reported
Vermont16<11not reported
Alaska15<11not reported
New Hampshire13<11not reported
North Dakota12<11not reported

New NPI registrations by year

Year first enumeratedNPIs
2016117
2017192
2018233
2019261
2020316
2021275
2022393
2023416
2024430
2025449

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

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.

Common questions

How many Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center providers are in the US?

There are 4,529 active NPI records nationally with this specialty as the primary taxonomy.

How many Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center providers are in private practice?

NPPES flags 156 records, or 3.4%, as sole proprietors. This is an imperfect proxy for private practice because the flag is self-reported and does not fully describe ownership or employment arrangements.

Which state has the most Adolescent and Children Mental Health Clinic/Center providers?

California has the largest reported count, with 681 active NPI records.

Are these counts the same as the number of clinics?

No. The figures count active NPI records with the specialty as the primary taxonomy, which may not correspond one-to-one with distinct clinics, locations, or service sites.

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