Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist providers in the U.S.
75,634 NPPES records list certified registered nurse anesthetist as their primary taxonomy, about 23 per 100,000 residents; South Dakota and North Dakota have the most per resident. 246 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 367500000X means
367500000X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered, in the grouping Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers. 75,634 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
(1) A licensed registered nurse with advanced specialty education in anesthesia who, in collaboration with appropriate health care professionals, provides preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative care to patients and assists in management and resuscitation of critical patients in intensive care, coronary care, and emergency situations. Nurse anesthetists are certified following successful completion of credentials and state licensure review and a national examination directed by the Council on Certification of Nurse Anesthetists. (2) A registered nurse who is qualified by special training to administer anesthesia in collaboration with a physician or dentist and who can assist in the care of patients who are in critical condition.
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 367500000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Dallas has the most, 1,405
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 367500000X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 51 by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 2,120 | 42 |
| Alaska | 162 | 22 |
| Arizona | 1,100 | 15 |
| Arkansas | 824 | 27 |
| California | 2,943 | 8 |
| Colorado | 867 | 15 |
| Connecticut | 880 | 24 |
| Delaware | 311 | 30 |
| District of Columbia | 119 | 18 |
| Florida | 6,367 | 28 |
| Georgia | 1,979 | 18 |
| Hawaii | 134 | 9 |
| Idaho | 476 | 24 |
| Illinois | 2,444 | 20 |
| Indiana | 716 | 10 |
| Iowa | 584 | 18 |
| Kansas | 1,123 | 38 |
| Kentucky | 1,535 | 34 |
| Louisiana | 1,819 | 40 |
| Maine | 534 | 38 |
| Maryland | 1,062 | 17 |
| Massachusetts | 1,342 | 19 |
| Michigan | 3,298 | 33 |
| Minnesota | 2,663 | 46 |
| Mississippi | 840 | 29 |
| Missouri | 2,069 | 33 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 137 | 12 |
| Nebraska | 689 | 35 |
| Nevada | 227 | 7 |
| New Hampshire | 431 | 31 |
| New Jersey | 1,154 | 12 |
| New Mexico | 347 | 16 |
| New York | 2,596 | 13 |
| North Carolina | 3,760 | 35 |
| North Dakota | 442 | 56 |
| Ohio | 3,606 | 31 |
| Oklahoma | 783 | 19 |
| Oregon | 568 | 13 |
| Pennsylvania | 4,822 | 37 |
| Rhode Island | 197 | 18 |
| South Carolina | 1,868 | 35 |
| South Dakota | 533 | 58 |
| Tennessee | 3,117 | 44 |
| Texas | 6,097 | 20 |
| Utah | 347 | 10 |
| Vermont | 53 | 8 |
| Virginia | 2,122 | 25 |
| Washington | 1,181 | 15 |
| West Virginia | 790 | 45 |
| Wisconsin | 1,241 | 21 |
| Wyoming | 73 | 13 |
In federal data
- NUCC code367500000X · Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered
- Size rank26th of 688 specialties by records (1.03% of all)
- Part D prescribers246 (0.3% of records)
- Part D claims224 a year per prescriber, on average (265th of 496)
- Industry payments24,076 physicians paid $3.3M in 2024, $135 each on average
- Concentration10 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 certified registered nurse anesthetist records
- Chester Bostek, CRNA, FNPAnchorage, AK1770588543
- Sheila Jensen, CRNAAnchorage, AK1629015722
- Catherine Grimes, CRNAAnchorage, AK1902995483
- Rachel Crawford, CRNAAnchorage, AK1174068951
- Jennifer Lichtenberg, DNP-AAnchorage, AK1578103362
- Thomas Fevurly, CRNAJber, AK1780670729
- David Johnson, CRNAJber, AK1346211166
- Marlene Wallace, CRNAJber, AK1629037676
- Adam Dalgleish, CRNAElmendorf Afb, AK1851539670
- Suzanne Firth, CRNAAnchorage, AK1043441769
- Teresa SellersJber, AK1851612824
- Colin Perry, CRNAElmendorf Afb, AK1205107919
- Christopher Cowley, CRNAJber, AK1104255892
- Darrell Saylor, CRNAJber, AK1518398700
- Jeremy Holzberger, CRNAJber, AK1922405661
- Sarah SiacuncoJber, AK1427449404
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Where does the large Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist headcount concentrate?
75,634 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist NPIs span 55 states; Florida alone holds 6,367. Top metros include Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; Pittsburgh, PA. Nationally this is 26th of 688 NUCC codes.
How large is Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 24,076 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist physicians totaling $3.3M (83,327 payments; average $135, 391st of 470). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist NPIs, 246 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 224 claims and $15K drug cost per prescriber; 265th 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.