Rural Health Clinic/Center: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For Rural Health Clinic/Center records, 28 of 6,739 active records, or 0.4%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. This is a self-reported NPPES field, and it does not establish ownership, independence, staffing model, or whether a clinic is in private practice. Use the share as an imperfect proxy for private practice, not a direct count of privately practicing clinics.

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.
• - Active NPI records are not necessarily unique clinics, clinicians, or physical locations.
• - The primary taxonomy is an NPPES classification, and NUCC has published no official definition for this label.
• - NPI enumeration dates show when records were first assigned, not when a clinic opened or how long it operated.
• 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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