Licensed Psychiatric Technician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An individual licensed by the state board as a Psychiatric Technician based upon completion of a prescribed course of theory and clinical practice, with two thirds of the clinical practice time focused on mental and developmental disorders. The psychiatric technician practices under the direct supervision of a physician, psychologist, registered nurse or other professional to provide care to patients with mental disorders and developmental disabilities.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 855 of the 2,313 active records, or 37.0%, carry the sole-proprietor flag. Because that flag is a self-reported NPPES field, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and is not a direct count of independent practitioners.

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.
• - An NPI taxonomy is a classification on an NPI record, not a complete headcount of every licensed technician.
• - Counts depend on records marked active with this taxonomy as the primary classification and can change as NPPES data are updated.
• 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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