Case Management Agency: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An organization that is responsible for providing case management services. The agency provides services which assist an individual in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and/or other services. Case management services may be used to locate, coordinate, and monitor necessary appropriate services. It may be used to encourage the use of cost-effective medical care by referrals to appropriate providers and to discourage over utilization of costly services. Case management may also serve to provide necessary coordination of non-medical services such as vocational rehabilitation, education, employment, when the services provided enable the individual to function at the highest level.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Case Management Agency records, the sole-proprietor flag identifies 3,311 records, or 14.4%, but it does not mean that all case management work is performed by one person. The field is self-reported in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself establish ownership, staffing, independence, or how services are coordinated.

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 always a one-to-one measure of an operating agency, location, or service site.
• - The primary taxonomy is a classification submitted to NPPES and may not capture every service an organization provides.
• - First-enumeration totals indicate when NPIs were issued and are not direct measures of openings, closures, or current service capacity.
• 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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