Acute Care Nurse Practitioner providers in the U.S.
27,063 NPPES records list acute care nurse practitioner as their primary taxonomy, about 8.1 per 100,000 residents; District of Columbia and Alabama have the most per resident. 13,133 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 363LA2100X means
363LA2100X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Nurse Practitioner, Acute Care, in the grouping Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers. 27,063 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, definition as NUCC publishes it (nucc.org); counts from CMS NPPES.
Most per resident: the 8 highest
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363LA2100X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
New York has the most, 844
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363LA2100X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 51 by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 959 | 18.8 |
| Alaska | 31 | 4.2 |
| Arizona | 645 | 8.7 |
| Arkansas | 458 | 14.9 |
| California | 1,810 | 4.6 |
| Colorado | 397 | 6.8 |
| Connecticut | 368 | 10.2 |
| Delaware | 42 | 4.1 |
| District of Columbia | 164 | 24.2 |
| Florida | 1,794 | 7.9 |
| Georgia | 963 | 8.7 |
| Hawaii | 69 | 4.8 |
| Idaho | 58 | 3.0 |
| Illinois | 639 | 5.1 |
| Indiana | 319 | 4.6 |
| Iowa | 172 | 5.4 |
| Kansas | 159 | 5.4 |
| Kentucky | 482 | 10.6 |
| Louisiana | 318 | 7.0 |
| Maine | 167 | 12.0 |
| Maryland | 755 | 12.2 |
| Massachusetts | 598 | 8.5 |
| Michigan | 865 | 8.6 |
| Minnesota | 138 | 2.4 |
| Mississippi | 272 | 9.3 |
| Missouri | 441 | 7.1 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 31 | 2.7 |
| Nebraska | 188 | 9.5 |
| Nevada | 176 | 5.5 |
| New Hampshire | 103 | 7.3 |
| New Jersey | 861 | 9.3 |
| New Mexico | 210 | 9.9 |
| New York | 1,720 | 8.8 |
| North Carolina | 500 | 4.6 |
| North Dakota | 12 | 1.5 |
| Ohio | 1,679 | 14.2 |
| Oklahoma | 333 | 8.2 |
| Oregon | 201 | 4.7 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,283 | 9.9 |
| Rhode Island | 124 | 11.3 |
| South Carolina | 465 | 8.7 |
| South Dakota | 21 | 2.3 |
| Tennessee | 1,071 | 15.0 |
| Texas | 3,239 | 10.6 |
| Utah | 202 | 5.9 |
| Vermont | 16 | 2.5 |
| Virginia | 931 | 10.8 |
| Washington | 283 | 3.6 |
| West Virginia | 74 | 4.2 |
| Wisconsin | 229 | 3.9 |
| Wyoming | 23 | 3.9 |
In federal data
- NUCC code363LA2100X · Nurse Practitioner
- Size rank52nd of 688 specialties by records (0.37% of all)
- In its family5th of 18 Nurse Practitioner codes, 5.2% of the family
- Part D prescribers13,133 (48.5% of records)
- Part D claims594 a year per prescriber, on average (154th of 496)
- Industry payments10,984 physicians paid $7.1M in 2024, $648 each on average
- Concentration8 states hold half of all records
Source: CMS NPPES; Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Presence in these files is not a quality judgment.
A sample of acute care nurse practitioner records
- Jennifer Colucci, APRNHartford, CT1558364653
- Meredith Messing, APRNMinnetonka, MN1639172265
- Cindy Zerfoss, N.P.Vinton, VA1184627606
- Theresa Deveaux, CRNPGlen Burnie, MD1013919067
- Judith Glann, ACNP-BCPrescott, AZ1851395743
- Cheryl Cavallaro, PNPAurora, CO1801890447
- Joanne Frazee, ACNPNashville, TN1376548727
- Krista Prinzi, NPRochester, NY1861497182
- Patricia Bierman, CRNPPittsburgh, PA1346245719
- Beatrice Launius, NPShreveport, LA1972508372
- Gloria DohertyAlbuquerque, NM1912902016
- Jeffrey Glover, F.N.P.Anderson, IN1487659348
- Timothy Stacy, ACNPSherman Oaks, CA1457356479
- Wendy Dusenbury, ARNPPhoenix, AZ1447255526
- Elizabeth Bolton-Harris, ACNPAtlanta, GA1417952508
- Susan Funk, NPGreenville, SC1033114087
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Where does the large Acute Care Nurse Practitioner headcount concentrate?
27,063 Acute Care Nurse Practitioner NPIs span 53 states; Texas alone holds 3,239. Top metros include New York, NY; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; Philadelphia, PA. Nationally this is 52nd of 688 NUCC codes.
How large is Acute Care Nurse Practitioner's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 10,984 Acute Care Nurse Practitioner physicians totaling $7.1M (136,101 payments; average $648, 267th of 470). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Acute Care Nurse Practitioner NPIs, 13,133 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 594 claims and $143K drug cost per prescriber; 154th of 496 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org); Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts are self-designated primary taxonomy, not board certification.
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.