Hearing and Speech Clinic/Center: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An entity, facility, or distinct part of a facility providing diagnostic, treatment, prescriptive, and therapy services related to congenital and acquired conditions and diseases that affect hearing capacity and speech ability.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 106 records, or 2.9%, have a self-reported sole-proprietor flag in NPPES. That share is an imperfect proxy for private practice because the field does not directly identify independent ownership, and NPPES entries may not fully reflect current business arrangements.

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.
• Counts include active NPI records with this specialty as the primary taxonomy, not necessarily unique clinics or locations.
• Enumeration-year counts show when NPIs were first recorded, not necessarily when services began.
• 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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