Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

Child & Adolescent Psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry with additional skills and training in the diagnosis and treatment of developmental, behavioral, emotional, and mental disorders of childhood and adolescence.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 2,150 active records, or 28.9%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice: it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, practice size, or whether care is delivered independently.

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.
• - Active NPI records are a registry measure, not a direct headcount of unique practicing child and adolescent psychiatrists.
• - Primary taxonomy and sole-proprietor status depend on NPPES reporting and may not capture every role, affiliation, or ownership arrangement.
• - First-enumeration totals indicate when NPIs were issued, not clinician entry, retention, or changes in specialty practice.
• 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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