Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center): how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 1,135 of 26,659 active primary-taxonomy records, or 4.3%, carry the sole-proprietor flag. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice, because it does not by itself establish an organization’s full ownership structure or operating model.

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 administrative data, not a complete census of service locations or ownership arrangements.
• - The taxonomy has no official NUCC definition published, so the label should be interpreted as a classification rather than a complete description of services.
• - A primary taxonomy records one selected classification and may not capture every service or specialty associated with an organization.
• 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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