Dental Therapist

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process. · Updated August 2026

NUCC 125J00000X

170 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 13 states · 468th of 690 specialties by headcount.

170

Providers

CMS NPPES-registered

States

with ≥1 NPI

Minnesota

Top state

91 providers

$271

Open Pay avg

440th of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Dental Therapist ranks 468th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0% of all registered NPIs), densest in Minnesota; per resident Alaska leads.

170
NPPES providers in specialty: 468th
of 690 specialties: 3564
state-share HHI: 0.6%
Part D prescriber share

Alaska is densest per capita (114× the national rate; Minnesota 31.6×).

Taxonomy fingerprint

Dental Therapist (NUCC 125J00000X; 0.6% Part D prescribers (1 of 170); avg 57 Part D claims/prescriber (532nd of 572); Open Payments avg $271/physician (440th of 551; 2 paid, $543 total); state-share HHI 3,564; next-larger headcount neighbor Long-Term Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (+2); next-smaller Pain Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician (-1)).

Next larger: Long-Term Care Clinical Nurse Specialist (172) Next smaller: Pain Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician (169)

Which states have the most providers?

#	State	Providers	% of specialty
1	Minnesota	91	53.5%
2	Alaska	42	24.7%
3	Washington	11	6.5%
4	Oregon	10	5.9%
5	California	3	1.8%
6	Georgia	3	1.8%
7	Michigan	2	1.2%
8	Northern Mariana Islands	2	1.2%

Sample Dental Therapist NPIs

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

#	Provider	State
1	Eva Romero, ADTMinneapolis, MN	Minnesota
2	Bonnie Hunt, DHATEmmonak, AK	Alaska
3	Benjamin StewardPortland, OR	Oregon
4	Lindsey Tischer, MDTPark Rapids, MN	Minnesota
5	Meng VangSaint Paul, MN	Minnesota
6	Cheryl Yamamoto, B.S., RDHReno, NV	Nevada
7	Jason AllredWadena, MN	Minnesota
8	Abigail Helmbrecht, A.D.T.Buffalo, MN	Minnesota
9	Chelsea Shoemaker, DHATSand Point, AK	Alaska
10	Erik Linduska, DHATKing Cove, AK	Alaska
11	Stephanie WoodsKotzebue, AK	Alaska
12	William HeitzmanShakopee, MN	Minnesota

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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Dental Therapist a thin NUCC code in NPPES?

Only 170 NPIs list Dental Therapist as primary taxonomy across 13 states (peak Minnesota, 91). That is 468th of 690 NUCC codes by headcount. Thin codes are still searchable by NPI; do not treat the low count as a quality signal.

Do the few Dental Therapist NPIs in Open Payments look unusual?

CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 2 paid Dental Therapist physicians totaling $543 (4 payments; average $271, 440th of 551 by average). Presence is not a quality judgment; thin specialties often have sparse payment rows.

How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?

Among Dental Therapist NPIs, 1 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 57 claims and $248 drug cost per prescriber; 532nd 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 2026-08-27.