Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Physician: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A pediatrician who is the principal care provider for sick newborn infants. Clinical expertise is used for direct patient care and for consulting with obstetrical colleagues to plan for the care of mothers who have high-risk pregnancies.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 792 of 6,194 active NPI records, or 12.8%, carry a sole-proprietor flag. This is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice, so it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, independence, or how care is organized.

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.
• - These are NPI records, not a direct count of physicians, practices, clinical sites, or patient volume.
• - A primary taxonomy is a submitted classification and may not capture every provider who delivers neonatal-perinatal care.
• - Enumeration-year counts show when NPIs were first assigned, not when clinicians entered this specialty or began practicing.
• 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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