Land Ambulance: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Land Ambulance, 226 active records, or 1.9%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. This is the proportion of classified records reporting that status, not a direct measure of land ambulance services operating in private practice. The sole-proprietor flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy because it does not fully capture organizational structure or ownership.

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 records do not necessarily equal unique clinicians, organizations, operating units, or service locations.
• - No official NUCC definition is published for this taxonomy, so its scope may not align perfectly with every land ambulance operation.
• 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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