Home Health Aide providers in the U.S.
49,403 NPPES records list home health aide as their primary taxonomy, about 15 per 100,000 residents; District of Columbia and West Virginia have the most per resident. 3 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 374U00000X means
374U00000X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Home Health Aide, in the grouping Nursing Service Related Providers. 49,403 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
A person trained to assist public health nurses, home health nurses, and other health professionals in the bedside care of patients in their homes.
Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, definition as NUCC publishes it (nucc.org); counts from CMS NPPES.
Most per resident: the 8 highest
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 374U00000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Washington has the most, 8,945
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 374U00000X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 51 by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 168 | 3 |
| Alaska | 41 | 6 |
| Arizona | 154 | 2 |
| Arkansas | 81 | 3 |
| California | 342 | 1 |
| Colorado | 89 | 2 |
| Connecticut | 56 | 2 |
| Delaware | 22 | 2 |
| District of Columbia | 9,120 | 1,343 |
| Florida | 1,458 | 6 |
| Georgia | 441 | 4 |
| Hawaii | 17 | 1 |
| Idaho | 42 | 2 |
| Illinois | 142 | 1 |
| Indiana | 167 | 2 |
| Iowa | 159 | 5 |
| Kansas | 34 | 1 |
| Kentucky | 66 | 2 |
| Louisiana | 180 | 4 |
| Maine | 58 | 4 |
| Maryland | 7,038 | 114 |
| Massachusetts | 124 | 2 |
| Michigan | 1,680 | 17 |
| Minnesota | 232 | 4 |
| Mississippi | 117 | 4 |
| Missouri | 320 | 5 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 17 | 2 |
| Nebraska | 4,351 | 220 |
| Nevada | 1,580 | 50 |
| New Hampshire | 43 | 3 |
| New Jersey | 166 | 2 |
| New Mexico | 53 | 3 |
| New York | 236 | 1 |
| North Carolina | 299 | 3 |
| North Dakota | 154 | 20 |
| Ohio | 10,818 | 92 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | 1 |
| Oregon | 98 | 2 |
| Pennsylvania | 362 | 3 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | 1 |
| South Carolina | 328 | 6 |
| South Dakota | 18 | 2 |
| Tennessee | 174 | 2 |
| Texas | 833 | 3 |
| Utah | 16 | 1 |
| Vermont | 1 | 0 |
| Virginia | 485 | 6 |
| Washington | 276 | 4 |
| West Virginia | 6,564 | 371 |
| Wisconsin | 125 | 2 |
| Wyoming | 10 | 2 |
In federal data
- NUCC code374U00000X
- Size rank39th of 688 specialties by records (0.67% of all)
- Part D prescribers3 (under 0.1% of records)
- Part D claims34 a year per prescriber, on average (435th of 496)
- Concentration3 states hold half of all records
Source: CMS NPPES; Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Presence in these files is not a quality judgment.
A sample of home health aide records
- Lydia QuinnAnchorage, AK1063555985
- Abednego Achamba, HHAAnchorage, AK1225471907
- Loreta PaligutanAnchorage, AK1194438085
- Gulnora KiyamovaAnchorage, AK1952534208
- Mee CollinsAnchorage, AK1548678436
- Rochelle Kuster, PCA, CHWAnchorage, AK1104555986
- Stefanie HallAnchorage, AK1205209970
- Agapita LlanezaAnchorage, AK1124518469
- Yee VangAnchorage, AK1043808074
- Samuel YangAnchorage, AK1508517152
- Merlo LlanezaAnchorage, AK1003125493
- Katherine KarabelnikoffAnchorage, AK1497094965
- Luz UmayamAnchorage, AK1497287239
- Dana ThomasAnchorage, AK1053842302
- Vivien McCormick, CNAAnchorage, AK1922623412
- Marissa JonesAnchorage, AK1194065193
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Where does the large Home Health Aide headcount concentrate?
49,403 Home Health Aide NPIs span 53 states; Ohio alone holds 10,818. Top metros include Washington, DC; Omaha, NE; Hyattsville, MD; Las Vegas, NV. Nationally this is 39th of 688 NUCC codes.
Where can I find a Home Health Aide provider?
Home Health Aide providers are listed in 53 states; Washington leads by raw city count. By national headcount this code sits just above Psychologist and just below Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Browse by state or search by name.
How heavy is Home Health Aide Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Home Health Aide NPIs, 3 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 34 claims and $512 drug cost per prescriber; 435th of 496 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org); Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts are self-designated primary taxonomy, not board certification.
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.