Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An emergency medicine physician who specializes in non-hospital based emergency medical services (e.g., disaster site, accident scene, transport vehicle, etc.) to provide pre-hospital assessment, treatment, and transport patients.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 15.0% of active records are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES, so the figure can help describe how records are classified but should not be read as the share of physicians working in private practice. The field is self-reported and may not capture group employment, contractor arrangements, organizational ownership, or changes in practice structure.

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.
• - The counts cover active NPI records where this taxonomy is primary, while providers may hold multiple taxonomies.
• - An NPI record may not represent one unique individual physician, so records should not be treated as a direct clinician census.
• 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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