Urgent Care Clinic/Center: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 1.9% of active records are flagged in NPPES as sole proprietors. That field is self-reported and is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself identify ownership, independence, or the operating structure of an urgent care organization.

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.
• These figures count active NPI records with this taxonomy as primary, not necessarily distinct urgent care sites, clinicians, or organizations.
• NUCC publishes no official definition for this taxonomy, and taxonomy selection may not capture every organization offering urgent care.
• 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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