Long Term Care Pharmacy: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A pharmacy that dispenses medicinal preparations delivered to patients residing within an intermediate or skilled nursing facility, including intermediate care facilities, hospice, assisted living facilities, group homes, and other forms of congregate living arrangements.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 29 records, or 0.4%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. That flag is self-reported and may not capture every independently operated pharmacy, while some flagged entities may not match a reader's definition of private practice, so the percentage is an imperfect proxy rather than a direct measure of ownership or independence.

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.
• An NPI record is not necessarily a unique pharmacy, organization, or location, and one organization can have multiple NPIs.
• NPPES records can be updated, deactivated, or recoded, so totals may change.
• 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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