Doula

NUCC 374J00000X

18,044 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 53 states · 60th of 690 specialties by headcount.

18,044
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
53
States
with ≥1 NPI
California
Top state
3,478 providers
$302
Open Pay avg
428th of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Doula ranks 60th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.25% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident Oregon leads.

18,044
NPPES providers in specialty
60th
of 690 specialties
681
state-share HHI
0%
Part D prescriber share

Oregon is densest per capita (3.9× the national rate; Rhode Island 2.6×).

Taxonomy fingerprint

Doula (NUCC 374J00000X; 0% Part D prescribers (6 of 18,044); avg 94 Part D claims/prescriber (495th of 572); Open Payments avg $302/physician (428th of 551; 11 paid, $3K total); state-share HHI 681; next-larger headcount neighbor Rehabilitation Practitioner (+737); next-smaller Hospitalist Physician (-94)).

Next larger: Rehabilitation Practitioner (18,781) Next smaller: Hospitalist Physician (17,950)

Population-adjusted state index

Each multiple is this specialty's providers-per-resident in a state divided by the national rate (Census Vintage population estimates). Raw headcount favors large states; this ranking surfaces denser markets.

Over-indexed vs national rate

Under-indexed vs national rate

Which states have the most providers?

#StateProviders
1California3,478
2Michigan1,302
3New York1,248
4Washington1,052
5Florida1,027
6Massachusetts882
7Oregon876
8New Jersey699
9Texas652
10Colorado562
11Virginia532
12Pennsylvania501
13Illinois470
14North Carolina429
15Maryland417

Top Cities for Doula

#CityProviders
1PortlandOregon331
2BrooklynNew York280
3SeattleWashington235
4Los AngelesCalifornia227
5DetroitMichigan210
6ChicagoIllinois177
7San FranciscoCalifornia172
8San DiegoCalifornia152
9OaklandCalifornia148
10MinneapolisMinnesota143
11RichmondVirginia139
12BuffaloNew York128

Sample Doula NPIs

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

#Provider
1Christie Grover, M.P.T., CERT. M.D.TLawrenceville, NJ
2Miriam Maldonado, LMDoral, FL
3Julie Brehm, PTCincinnati, OH
4Emily Goodman-Simeone, LMSWDuxbury, MA
5Sheila Caldwell, FNP-BCDetroit, MI
6Sandra AllySan Francisco, CA
7Heidi Jones, D.C.Sacramento, CA
8Kathy Billips, MS, LBPBroken Arrow, OK
9Krystal Long, B.A., CLCGardnerville, NV
10Lyniece McNair-Levi, MS, AT, ATCGrand Blanc, MI
11Erin PetersonGainesville, FL
12Brooke Shaw, BA, CLCSaint Louis, MO
13Maria VillafuerteBakersfield, CA
14Heather Tweedie, OTRBend, OR
15Norma Marquez VenegasWatsonville, CA
16Susanna Alongi, LMTBellingham, WA
17Rochelle McLean, IBCLCCarlsbad, CA
18Gretchen Andrews, IBCLCRedlands, CA

Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the large Doula headcount concentrate?
18,044 Doula NPIs span 53 states; California alone holds 3,478. Top metros include Portland, OR; Brooklyn, NY; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA. Nationally this is 60th of 690 NUCC codes.
How large is Doula's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 11 Doula physicians totaling $3K (40 payments; average $302, 428th of 551). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Doula Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Doula NPIs, 6 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 94 claims and $18K drug cost per prescriber; 495th 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.