Pediatric Physical Therapist: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A licensed physical therapist, including but not limited to an individual who is a Board Certified Specialist in Pediatric Physical Therapy, who has demonstrated specialized knowledge and skill in anatomy, histology, including embryonic development, genetics, biomechanics, neurological function, neuroscience, and pathology, behavioral sciences, and understanding of diseases or conditions that necessitate physical therapy care, that affect systems that in turn necessitate physical therapy care (comorbidities), and that influence the type of intervention that can be given.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 2,306 of the 7,449 active records, or 31.0%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. Because that is a self-reported NPPES field, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not by itself show ownership, employment status, billing arrangements, or the number of practice locations.

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 records are administrative identifiers and may not equal the number of unique clinicians, organizations, or practice locations.
• The count covers active records with this taxonomy as the primary classification, so providers classified primarily under another taxonomy may not appear here.
• 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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