Health Educator: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

Health educators work in a variety of settings providing education to individuals or groups of individuals on healthy behaviors, wellness, and health-related topics with the goal of preventing diseases and health problems. Health educators generally require a bachelor's degree and may receive additional training, such as through mentoring, internships, or volunteer work.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor share describes the portion of active Health Educator NPI records whose owners marked the NPPES sole-proprietor field, not a verified measure of private practice. Health educators work across varied settings, so the self-reported flag may not capture employment, contracting, organizational affiliation, or actual practice ownership; use it as an indicator rather than a definitive private-practice count.

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.
• NPPES taxonomy and active-status fields describe NPI records, not necessarily distinct people or currently practicing professionals.
• First-enumeration counts reflect NPI record timing and reporting, not necessarily new entrants to the Health Educator workforce.
• 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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