NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Family Nurse Practitioner in North Dakota

757 NPPES records list family nurse practitioner with a practice address in North Dakota, 97 per 100,000 residents, the 9th highest rate of 51. Fargo and Bismarck have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the North Dakota license search. Page 16 of 16.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 363LF0000X · method

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

Fargo has the most, 188

  1. Fargo188
  2. Bismarck129
  3. Grand Forks76
  4. Minot64
  5. Dickinson23

Family Nurse Practitioner records in North Dakota

  1. Jenna Zaffke, D.N.PWest Fargo, ND 580781558777235
  2. Heather Zander, FNP-CMinot, ND 587011144062878
  3. Chelsey Zeltinger, NPCarrington, ND 584211356865497
  4. Kinsey Zieman, FNPFargo, ND 581031497526248
  5. Brooke Zimmerman, APRN, CNPFargo, ND 581031992425441
  6. Amber Zimny, NP-CBismarck, ND 585011952883936
  7. Christy ZinckRugby, ND 583681891213328

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363LF0000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

North Dakota ranks 9 of 51 per resident

  1. Florida99
  2. Louisiana98
  3. New Hampshire98
  4. North Dakota97
  5. South Dakota94
  6. Maine91
  7. 50 states and D.C.71

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363LF0000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

83.6% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 75.1% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. North Dakota83.6%
  2. United States75.1%

Family Nurse Practitioner records in North Dakota, measured

  • In a Medicare file633 of 757 · 83.6% here, 75.1% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file556 · 73.4% here, 57.1% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more281 · 37.1% here, 40.5% nationally
  • Median graduation year2019 · the 556 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 363LF0000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

757 NPPES records list family nurse practitioner (363LF0000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in North Dakota: 97 per 100,000 residents against 71 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Fargo has 188 of them (25%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Hawaii780
  2. Rhode Island791
  3. Delaware709
  4. Montana815

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New Hampshire98.2
  2. Louisiana98.5
  3. Florida98.8
  4. South Dakota93.8

The largest states

  1. Florida22,340
  2. Texas21,242
  3. California16,966
  4. New York14,805
  5. Ohio9,647

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

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.