Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 14,504 of 48,495 active primary-taxonomy records, or 29.9%, are flagged as sole proprietors. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangement, independent clinical work, or current activity.

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.
• Only records using this taxonomy as the primary taxonomy are counted, so providers using it only as a secondary taxonomy are outside the total.
• NUCC has published no official definition for this taxonomy, and administrative NPI data may not reflect current clinical activity or when practice began.
• 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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