Attendant Care Provider vs Personal Care Attendant

Personal Care Attendant has 10.8 times as many registry records as Attendant Care Provider: 97,299 against 9,021. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Attendant Care Provider: 9,021 records in 54 states

Nebraska1,554
California917
Nevada683
Florida536
Texas532

Attendant Care Provider nationwide →

Personal Care Attendant: 97,299 records in 52 states

Nevada31,985
West Virginia30,816
Nebraska13,406
District of Columbia5,661
Ohio5,124

Personal Care Attendant nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Attendant Care Provider	Personal Care Attendant	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
Nevada	683	31,985	21.4	1001.4
West Virginia	190	30,816	10.7	1740.9
Nebraska	1,554	13,406	78.5	677.6
District of Columbia	105	5,661	15.5	833.8
Ohio	488	5,124	4.1	43.5
Michigan	222	1,953	2.2	19.5
North Dakota	19	1,837	2.4	234.3
Florida	536	833	2.4	3.7
Texas	532	649	1.7	2.1
California	917	96	2.4	0.2
Maryland	50	812	0.8	13.1
Louisiana	84	741	1.8	16.2
Alaska	152	636	20.7	86.7
Oregon	172	303	4.1	7.2
Virginia	267	202	3.1	2.3
Minnesota	76	376	1.3	6.6
Georgia	259	121	2.3	1.1
Oklahoma	98	278	2.4	6.9
Indiana	160	168	2.3	2.4
Arizona	165	145	2.2	2.0
Illinois	215	62	1.7	0.5
Washington	228	38	2.9	0.5
North Carolina	172	89	1.6	0.8
South Carolina	153	59	2.8	1.1
Kentucky	70	120	1.5	2.7
Missouri	119	66	1.9	1.1
Wisconsin	126	56	2.1	0.9
Tennessee	120	56	1.7	0.8
Mississippi	102	57	3.5	1.9
Iowa	69	84	2.2	2.6
New Mexico	131	10	6.2	0.5
Arkansas	90	50	2.9	1.6
New York	97	40	0.5	0.2
Pennsylvania	53	72	0.4	0.6
Colorado	78	37	1.3	0.6
Alabama	90	20	1.8	0.4
Kansas	41	46	1.4	1.6
Connecticut	62	17	1.7	0.5
Maine	24	40	1.7	2.9
New Jersey	32	27	0.3	0.3
Massachusetts	26	16	0.4	0.2
Utah	33	9	1.0	0.3
South Dakota	26	13	2.8	1.4
Idaho	19	17	1.0	0.9
Hawaii	23	4	1.6	0.3
Montana	12	15	1.1	1.3
New Hampshire	17	9	1.2	0.6
Delaware	7	7	0.7	0.7
Wyoming	7	7	1.2	1.2
Rhode Island	3	2	0.3	0.2
Vermont	5	0	0.8	0.0

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Attendant Care Provider providers are there vs Personal Care Attendant?

There are 9,021 Attendant Care Provider and 97,299 Personal Care Attendant records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Attendant Care Provider has records in 54 states and territories, against 52.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.