NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Chiropractor providers in the U.S.

96,211 NPPES records list chiropractor as their primary taxonomy, about 29 per 100,000 residents; North Dakota and Iowa have the most per resident. 26 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 111N00000X · method

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

What taxonomy code 111N00000X means

111N00000X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Chiropractor, in the grouping Chiropractic Providers. 96,211 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).

A provider qualified by a Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.), licensed by the State and who practices chiropractic medicine -that discipline within the healing arts which deals with the nervous system and its relationship to the spinal column and its interrelationship with other body systems.

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

  1. North Dakota64
  2. Iowa63
  3. Minnesota59
  4. South Dakota58
  5. Kansas49
  6. Oregon44
  7. Alaska43
  8. Wisconsin43
  9. 50 states and D.C.29

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 111N00000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

Houston has the most, 751

  1. Houston, TX751
  2. Chicago, IL624
  3. Portland, OR582
  4. New York, NY553
  5. Dallas, TX546
  6. San Diego, CA531
  7. Los Angeles, CA525
  8. Phoenix, AZ433

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 111N00000X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.

All 51 by state

StateRecordsPer 100,000
Alabama90118
Alaska31743
Arizona1,97127
Arkansas67822
California11,49830
Colorado2,34940
Connecticut90725
Delaware23823
District of Columbia6910
Florida6,96731
Georgia3,25130
Hawaii39027
Idaho70836
Illinois4,52436
Indiana1,40621
Iowa2,01963
Kansas1,44949
Kentucky1,01622
Louisiana77017
Maine41830
Maryland88114
Massachusetts1,57723
Michigan3,05831
Minnesota3,37759
Mississippi31711
Missouri2,53741
StateRecordsPer 100,000
Montana47442
Nebraska85243
Nevada69422
New Hampshire37727
New Jersey2,91031
New Mexico41119
New York4,57323
North Carolina2,24221
North Dakota49864
Ohio2,68823
Oklahoma98324
Oregon1,88144
Pennsylvania3,93430
Rhode Island22821
South Carolina1,54029
South Dakota53358
Tennessee1,52922
Texas6,97923
Utah90126
Vermont21133
Virginia1,56618
Washington3,00639
West Virginia27616
Wisconsin2,55043
Wyoming17129

In federal data

  • NUCC code111N00000X
  • Size rank23rd of 688 specialties by records (1.31% of all)
  • Part D prescribers26 (under 0.1% of records)
  • Part D claims60 a year per prescriber, on average (393rd of 496)
  • Industry payments1,456 physicians paid $489K in 2024, $336 each on average
  • Concentration9 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 chiropractor records

  1. Desiree Hastings, D.CAnchorage, AK1568545622
  2. Todd Curzie, D.C.Anchorage, AK1306989108
  3. April Hudson, D.C.Anchorage, AK1871936468
  4. Christopher Dirth, DCAnchorage, AK1336647965
  5. Omid Rahmanian, D.CAnchorage, AK1134232499
  6. Edward Foster, D.C.Anchorage, AK1790827806
  7. Douglas Luther, D.C.Anchorage, AK1225225535
  8. Jennifer Lovdahl, D.C.Anchorage, AK1275766206
  9. Shawn Lovdahl, D.C.Anchorage, AK1528394137
  10. Jennifer Reed, D.C.Anchorage, AK1669815692
  11. Adam Hawkins, D.C.Anchorage, AK1730571860
  12. Simon Carraway, D.C.Anchorage, AK1770547762
  13. Amy Conklin, D.C.Anchorage, AK1669423927
  14. Leslie Morris, DCAnchorage, AK1467404061
  15. Robert Van Zweeden, D.C.Anchorage, AK1720033525
  16. Adrian Barber, DCAnchorage, AK1730105701

Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.

Common questions

Where does the large Chiropractor headcount concentrate?

96,211 Chiropractor NPIs span 56 states; California alone holds 11,498. Top metros include Houston, TX; Chicago, IL; Portland, OR; New York, NY. Nationally this is 23rd of 688 NUCC codes.

How large is Chiropractor's Open Payments footprint?

CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 1,456 Chiropractor physicians totaling $489K (3,305 payments; average $336, 320th of 470). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.

How heavy is Chiropractor Part D prescribing at scale?

Among Chiropractor NPIs, 26 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 60 claims and $4K drug cost per prescriber; 393rd 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.