Personal Care Attendant vs Technician

Personal Care Attendant has 36.3 times as many registry records as Technician: 97,299 against 2,683. 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

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 →

Technician: 2,683 records in 52 states

California567
Michigan247
Nebraska191
Washington184
Missouri124

Technician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Personal Care Attendant	Technician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
Nevada	31,985	99	1001.4	3.1
West Virginia	30,816	42	1740.9	2.4
Nebraska	13,406	191	677.6	9.7
District of Columbia	5,661	22	833.8	3.2
Ohio	5,124	73	43.5	0.6
Michigan	1,953	247	19.5	2.5
North Dakota	1,837	13	234.3	1.7
Florida	833	99	3.7	0.4
Maryland	812	25	13.1	0.4
Louisiana	741	17	16.2	0.4
Texas	649	75	2.1	0.2
California	96	567	0.2	1.5
Alaska	636	22	86.7	3.0
Minnesota	376	18	6.6	0.3
Oregon	303	60	7.2	1.4
Oklahoma	278	43	6.9	1.1
Virginia	202	27	2.3	0.3
Georgia	121	102	1.1	0.9
Washington	38	184	0.5	2.4
Arizona	145	75	2.0	1.0
Kentucky	120	72	2.7	1.6
Indiana	168	23	2.4	0.3
Missouri	66	124	1.1	2.0
North Carolina	89	32	0.8	0.3
Illinois	62	43	0.5	0.3
Iowa	84	18	2.6	0.6
Pennsylvania	72	30	0.6	0.2
New York	40	42	0.2	0.2
Tennessee	56	23	0.8	0.3
Wisconsin	56	22	0.9	0.4
Colorado	37	34	0.6	0.6
Arkansas	50	18	1.6	0.6
South Carolina	59	8	1.1	0.1
Mississippi	57	6	1.9	0.2
Kansas	46	12	1.6	0.4
New Jersey	27	29	0.3	0.3
Massachusetts	16	37	0.2	0.5
Alabama	20	24	0.4	0.5
Maine	40	1	2.9	0.1
Connecticut	17	14	0.5	0.4
Utah	9	14	0.3	0.4
Idaho	17	5	0.9	0.3
Montana	15	5	1.3	0.4
New Mexico	10	10	0.5	0.5
Delaware	7	10	0.7	1.0
Hawaii	4	12	0.3	0.8
South Dakota	13	1	1.4	0.1
New Hampshire	9	4	0.6	0.3
Wyoming	7	1	1.2	0.2
Rhode Island	2	0	0.2	0.0
Vermont	0	1	0.0	0.2

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

Common questions

How many Personal Care Attendant providers are there vs Technician?

There are 97,299 Personal Care Attendant and 2,683 Technician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Both have records in 52 states and territories.

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.