Medical Specialty 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, and prescriptive services related to a specific area of medical specialization. Frequently used for Title V related Children's Specialty services or to meet specific public health needs (e.g., infectious diseases or breast and cervical cancer).

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, a sole-proprietor flag identifies an NPPES record that reports that status; 125 records, or 2.0%, are flagged. It is an imperfect proxy for private practice because the field is self-reported and Medical Specialty Clinic/Center records can represent facilities or entities serving specialized or public-health needs, rather than independently owned clinician practices.

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• NPPES taxonomy and sole-proprietor fields are reported data and may be incomplete, outdated, or applied differently across organizations.
• The total covers active records whose primary taxonomy is 261QM2500X; entities using another primary taxonomy or listing this taxonomy secondarily may not appear.
• NPI records do not measure patient volume, staffing, revenue, service capacity, or whether a location is currently operating as a specialty clinic.
• 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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