Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A residential treatment facility (RTF) is a facility or distinct part of a facility that provides to children and adolescents, a total, twenty-four hour, therapeutically planned group living and learning situation where distinct and individualized psychotherapeutic interventions can take place. Residential treatment is a specific level of care to be differentiated from acute, intermediate, and long-term hospital care, when the least restrictive environment is maintained to allow for normalization of the patient's surroundings. The RTF must be both physically and programmatically distinct if it is a part or subunit of a larger treatment program. An RTF is organized and professionally staffed to provide residential treatment of mental disorders to children and adolescents who have sufficient intellectual potential to respond to active treatment (that is, for whom it can reasonably be assum

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 87 records, or 4.2%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. That field is self-reported and is an imperfect proxy for private practice: it does not by itself show that a facility is privately owned, independently operated, or serving patients through an individual clinician. Treat the percentage as a description of NPPES record status, not as a direct estimate of the share of psychiatric residential treatment facilities in 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.
• The dataset counts active NPI records with this primary taxonomy, not a verified census of distinct facilities, service sites, or beds.
• Taxonomy selection and NPI maintenance can change over time, so enumeration-year counts should not be read as facility openings, closures, or growth causes.
• 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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