Diabetes Educator Registered Nurse: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 560 of 2,510 active records, or 22.3%, are flagged as sole proprietors. That NPPES field is self-reported and is an imperfect proxy for private practice, because it may not capture every independent arrangement and may include records whose business structure differs from a reader's definition of private practice. Treat the percentage as a description of reported NPPES status, not as a complete count of privately practicing clinicians or a measure of clinical activity.

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.
• - NPI counts are administrative records, not a census of people or a direct measure of current clinical activity.
• - NUCC has published no official definition for this taxonomy, so its practical scope may vary across organizations and records.
• 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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