Women's Health Nurse Practitioner: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 1,515 of 9,844 active records, or 15.4%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. The flag is a self-reported NPPES field, so it can indicate individual ownership but is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not establish how a provider is employed or organized.

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.
• NPI records are administrative identifiers and may not represent every practicing clinician or current practice status.
• This page uses the primary taxonomy only; a provider may report additional taxonomy classifications.
• 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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