Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist

NUCC 364SG0600X · Clinical Nurse Specialist

395 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 47 states · 359th of 690 specialties by headcount.

395
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
47
States
with ≥1 NPI
California
Top state
46 providers
$638
Open Pay avg
331st of 552 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist ranks 359th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.01% of all registered NPIs), densest in California; per resident Oklahoma leads.

395
NPPES providers in specialty
359th
of 690 specialties
589
state-share HHI
30.9%
Part D prescriber share

Oklahoma is densest per capita (6.5× the national rate; Ohio 2.9×); 4.4% of the Clinical Nurse Specialist category.

Taxonomy fingerprint

Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist (NUCC 364SG0600X; 30.9% Part D prescribers (122 of 395); avg 906 Part D claims/prescriber (158th of 567); Open Payments avg $638/physician (331st of 552; 120 paid, $77K total); state-share HHI 589; next-larger headcount neighbor Homeopath (+2); next-smaller Pediatric Rheumatology Physician (-1)).

Next larger: Homeopath (397) Next smaller: Pediatric Rheumatology Physician (394)

Which states have the most providers?

# State Providers
1 California 46
2 Texas 45
3 Ohio 40
4 Oklahoma 31
5 Illinois 25
6 Michigan 17
7 Florida 16
8 Minnesota 14

Sample Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist NPIs

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

# Provider
1 Cheryl Hart, ARNP Bartlesville, OK
2 Judith Petrin, APRN Fort Myers, FL
3 Helena Chmielowicz, APRN New Haven, CT
4 Nicole Blackwood, CRNP Minneapolis, MN
5 Sharon Marshall, RN GNP CS BC Manvel, TX
6 Martha Anderson, CNS Roanoke, VA
7 Jill Bass, CNS Roanoke, VA
8 Sherry Robinson, RNCS Springfield, IL
9 Kathleen Ondus, GCNS, BC Lorain, OH
10 Barbara Cunningham, BSN, MS,APRN,BC, CNS Palo Alto, CA
11 Betty Wexler, RN CNS Palo Alto, CA
12 Patricia Brogan, ADVANCE PRACTICE NUR Manchester, NJ

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist providers are in the US?
There are 395 Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist providers registered in the CMS NPPES database across 47 US states and territories. California has the most with 46 providers. Among 690 NUCC specialties, this code ranks 359th by headcount.
Do Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist clinicians appear in Open Payments?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 120 Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist physicians receiving industry payments totaling $77K (1,493 payments; average $638 per paid physician, 331st of 552 specialties by average). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist NPIs, 122 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 906 claims and $157K drug cost per prescriber; 158th of 567 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 2026-05-20.