NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Hearing Instrument Specialist in Montana

53 NPPES records list hearing instrument specialist with a practice address in Montana, 4.7 per 100,000 residents, the 8th highest rate of 51. Great Falls and Billings have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Montana license search. Page 2 of 2.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 237700000X · method

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

Great Falls has the most, 13

  1. Great Falls13
  2. Billings10
  3. Missoula9
  4. Kalispell7
  5. Helena4

Hearing Instrument Specialist records in Montana

  1. Cassandra WinterrowdGreat Falls, MT 594041194642132
  2. Greg WiserKalispell, MT 599011689102899
  3. Kati YoungMissoula, MT 598021215317961

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 237700000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Montana ranks 8 of 51 per resident

  1. New Hampshire5.0
  2. Minnesota4.9
  3. Vermont4.8
  4. Montana4.7
  5. Maine4.7
  6. Wyoming4.6
  7. 50 states and D.C.3.2

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 237700000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 0.1% 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. Montana0.0%
  2. United States0.1%

Hearing Instrument Specialist records in Montana, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 53 · 0.0% here, 0.1% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, 0.2% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more33 · 62.3% here, 65.3% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 237700000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

53 NPPES records list hearing instrument specialist (237700000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Montana: 4.7 per 100,000 residents against 3.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Great Falls has 13 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. Nevada56
  2. West Virginia59
  3. Mississippi63
  4. Maine65

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Wyoming4.6
  2. Oregon4.6
  3. Vermont4.8
  4. Minnesota4.9

The largest states

  1. Florida1,129
  2. California994
  3. Texas828
  4. Pennsylvania447
  5. Illinois408

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.