Physical Therapy 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 and treatment services related to physical rehabilitation. Physical therapy is a dynamic profession with an established theoretical and scientific base and widespread clinical applications in the restoration, maintenance, and promotion of optimal physical function. Physical therapists and physical therapist assistants are licensed health care professionals who are experts in the movement system and help individuals maintain, restore, and improve movement, activity, and functioning, thereby enabling optimal performance and enhancing health, well-being, and quality of life. Their services prevent, minimize, or eliminate impairments of body functions and structures, activity limitations, and participation restrictions. Physical therapy is provided for individuals of all ages who have or may develop impairments, activit

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 1,279 records, or 6.5%, carry NPPES's sole-proprietor flag. Because this taxonomy includes entities, facilities, and distinct parts of facilities, the flag is an imperfect proxy for private practice and should not be read as the share of clinics or physical therapists operating independently. It is a self-reported NPPES field and does not directly establish ownership or practice arrangement.

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.
• - NPI records are administrative identifiers and may not equal unique physical locations, organizations, or clinicians.
• - Counts can change as NPPES records are added, updated, deactivated, or assigned a different primary taxonomy.
• 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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