NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Acupuncturist in South Dakota

26 NPPES records list acupuncturist with a practice address in South Dakota, 2.8 per 100,000 residents, the 32nd highest rate of 51. Rapid City and Sioux Falls have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the South Dakota license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 171100000X · method

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

Rapid City has the most, 14

  1. Rapid City14
  2. Sioux Falls7
  3. Spearfish2
  4. Aberdeen1
  5. Brandon1

Acupuncturist records in South Dakota

  1. Francisco Aymond Pineda, DR.Rapid City, SD 577011548112758
  2. Dylan BrandenburgSpearfish, SD 577831104273150
  3. Gregory Carder, MAC, LACRapid City, SD 577011538767736
  4. Michaela Carder, MACRapid City, SD 577011508626235
  5. Becky Cermak, ACUPUNCTURISTRapid City, SD 577011528175148
  6. Aubrey ComstockRapid City, SD 577011619727682
  7. Debora De Oliveira Dutra Vidal Barbosa, LACSioux Falls, SD 571051437988748
  8. Luke EppersonRapid City, SD 577011528531928
  9. Lidia Esper, ACUPUNCTURISTBrandon, SD 570051952152100
  10. Hua Guo, LACSioux Falls, SD 571081902336407
  11. Kathryn Halstead, MSTOMRapid City, SD 577021497828081
  12. Mariah JohnsonSioux Falls, SD 571081033079413
  13. Larissa Kempf, MCMAberdeen, SD 574011760024848
  14. Nicole Krueger, LAC.Rapid City, SD 577011144627522
  15. Sharon Lai, DR.Rapid City, SD 577011023960242
  16. Shwurong Lee, D.O.M PHDSioux Falls, SD 571081720323314
  17. Taylor Martin, ND, LACSioux Falls, SD 571081336801869
  18. Andrea Miller, LACRapid City, SD 577021679974208
  19. Chris OrmsethSpearfish, SD 577831841865425
  20. Kaci Peters, DIPL. ACRapid City, SD 577021376153130
  21. Colleen Ragan, L.AC, DIPL.AC.Rapid City, SD 577011679839476
  22. Thomas Richardson, MACOM, DIPL. OMRapid City, SD 577021821383183
  23. Danny Rinerson, ACUPUNCTURISTWatertown, SD 572011821284639
  24. Anand SanghaviSioux Falls, SD 571081124689559
  25. Ariann WolffRapid City, SD 577011922613421
  26. Yinan ZhaoSioux Falls, SD 571081770098881

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 171100000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

South Dakota ranks 32 of 51 per resident

  1. Texas3.5
  2. Nevada3.3
  3. Utah3.0
  4. South Dakota2.8
  5. Delaware2.6
  6. Georgia2.4
  7. 50 states and D.C.10.0

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 171100000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 0.2% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. South Dakota0.0%
  2. United States0.2%

Acupuncturist records in South Dakota, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 26 · 0.0% here, 0.2% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, 0.4% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more17 · 65.4% here, 73.8% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 171100000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

26 NPPES records list acupuncturist (171100000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in South Dakota: 2.8 per 100,000 residents against 10 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Rapid City has 14 of them (54%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Delaware27
  2. Wyoming24
  3. Alabama23
  4. Arkansas30

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Utah3.0
  2. Georgia2.4
  3. South Carolina2.4
  4. Nevada3.3

The largest states

  1. California10,648
  2. New York3,942
  3. Florida2,291
  4. Oregon1,539
  5. Washington1,485

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

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 Aug 9, 2026.