Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist

NUCC 364SC0200X · Clinical Nurse Specialist

215 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 36 states · 436th of 690 specialties by headcount.

215
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
36
States
with ≥1 NPI
Illinois
Top state
27 providers
$643
Open Pay avg
328th of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist ranks 436th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0% of all registered NPIs), densest in Illinois; per resident Oklahoma leads.

215
NPPES providers in specialty
436th
of 690 specialties
565
state-share HHI
14.9%
Part D prescriber share

Oklahoma is densest per capita (3.9× the national rate; Illinois 3.4×); 2.3% of the Clinical Nurse Specialist category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist (NUCC 364SC0200X; 14.9% Part D prescribers (32 of 215); avg 1,073 Part D claims/prescriber (130th of 572); Open Payments avg $643/physician (328th of 551; 59 paid, $38K total); state-share HHI 565; next-larger headcount neighbor Pain Management Registered Nurse (+1); next-smaller Sleep Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician (-1)).

Next larger: Pain Management Registered Nurse (216) Next smaller: Sleep Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician (214)

Which states have the most providers?

#StateProviders
1Illinois27
2California21
3Ohio16
4Florida14
5Texas14
6Indiana11
7North Carolina11
8Oklahoma10

Sample Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist NPIs

A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.

#Provider
1Mary Dignan, CNSChicago, IL
2Julie Marcum, APRNBoise, ID
3Lorraine Fields, CNSAkron, OH
4Daphne Hargate, CNPCleveland, OH
5Susan Giacchino, APNKankakee, IL
6Kathleen Grady, CNSChicago, IL
7Melissa Thorson, CCNS CCRN CNRNRobbinsdale, MN
8Bette Idemoto, PHD RN CCRN CSCleveland, OH
9Kathryn Johnson, RN, MS, CNS, CCRNPortland, OR
10Carol Budgin, CNSEast Chicago, IN
11Denise Antle, ARNP, MSN, CCNSDavenport, IA
12Elizabeth (beth) Zimmermann, APNChicago, IL

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist providers are in the US?
There are 215 Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist providers registered in the CMS NPPES database across 36 US states and territories. Illinois has the most with 27 providers. Among 690 NUCC specialties, this code ranks 436th by headcount.
Do Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist clinicians appear in Open Payments?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 59 Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist physicians receiving industry payments totaling $38K (558 payments; average $643 per paid physician, 328th of 551 specialties by average). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Critical Care Medicine Clinical Nurse Specialist NPIs, 32 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 1,073 claims and $362K drug cost per prescriber; 130th of 572 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Data sources and methodology

Provider data from CMS NPPES (download.cms.gov/nppes). Specialty classification from NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org). Part D averages from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; industry payments from CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts reflect self-designated primary taxonomy at NPI enrollment. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Methodology · About

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-25.