Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An individual who is enrolled in an organized health care education/training program leading to a degree, certification, registration, and/or licensure to provide health care.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, a sole-proprietor flag does not by itself mean that a student or trainee operates a private practice. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field and an imperfect proxy for private practice; it may reflect administrative or billing status rather than employment setting, program affiliation, or independent 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 measure counts active NPI records with this primary taxonomy, not a direct census of people currently enrolled or a measure of program size.
• NPPES taxonomy and practice-related fields may not reflect a provider's current training status, affiliation, or practice location.
• First-enumeration counts measure NPI issuance, not new enrollment, graduation, retention, or movement into practice.
• 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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