Community Health Registered Nurse: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 2,554 active records, or 32.8%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. Because that field is self-reported, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not by itself establish independent ownership, employment status, or how a clinician delivers care. Use the percentage to describe NPPES reporting, not as a definitive estimate of private-practice clinicians.

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 active NPI count measures records with this primary taxonomy, not patient volume, clinical FTEs, or service capacity.
• Taxonomy selection and updates in NPPES can vary, and the lack of an official NUCC definition limits how precisely this label maps to actual roles.
• 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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