Pharmacist Clinician (PhC)/ Clinical Pharmacy Specialist: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

Pharmacist Clinician/Clinical Pharmacy Specialist is a pharmacist with additional training and an expanded scope of practice that may include prescriptive authority, therapeutic management, and disease management.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor share indicates how many NPPES records are flagged as sole proprietors, not how many Pharmacist Clinicians work in private practice. It is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy because it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, or independent practice. Use it as a descriptive indicator, not as a measure of practice setting or causation.

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 active NPI records with this taxonomy as the primary classification, not a direct census of all practicing Pharmacist Clinicians.
• First-enumeration counts identify when NPIs were first issued, not when a clinician began practicing this specialty.
• 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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