Psychiatric Hospital: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An organization including a physical plant and personnel that provides multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment mental health services to patients requiring the safety, security, and shelter of the inpatient or partial hospitalization settings.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, the sole-proprietor share should be read as a registry classification, not a count of psychiatric hospitals operating as private practices. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and may reflect how an NPI record is registered rather than the hospital's ownership, management, staffing, or care setting, so it is an imperfect proxy for private practice.

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 map one-to-one to physical hospitals, systems, campuses, or service locations.
• The primary taxonomy reflects the classification on the record and may not capture every service a hospital provides or every organization serving psychiatric inpatients.
• 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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