Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 3,229 records, or 20.8%, carry the sole-proprietor flag, so the figure indicates how NPPES classifies these records rather than how many podiatrists work in private practice. The flag is self-reported and may not capture group ownership, employment arrangements, or other practice structures, making it an imperfect proxy for private practice.

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 figures count active NPI records with this taxonomy as the primary classification, not necessarily unique physicians, practices, or locations.
• - NUCC publishes no official definition for this taxonomy, so the classification should be interpreted through its taxonomy label and coding context.
• 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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