Lay Midwife providers in the U.S.
460 NPPES records list lay midwife as their primary taxonomy, about 0.1 per 100,000 residents; Utah and Alaska have the most per resident. 1 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 175M00000X means
175M00000X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Midwife, Lay, in the grouping Other Service Providers. 460 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
A person qualified by experience and limited specialized training to provide obstetric and neo-natal care in the management of women having normal pregnancy, labor and childbirth. The lay midwife is licensed in some states.
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 175M00000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Las Vegas has the most, 9
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 175M00000X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 44 states and D.C. with records, by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 5 | 0.1 |
| Montana | 8 | 0.7 |
| Nevada | 12 | 0.4 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | 0.2 |
| New Jersey | 7 | 0.1 |
| New Mexico | 15 | 0.7 |
| New York | 9 | 0.0 |
| North Carolina | 3 | 0.0 |
| North Dakota | 2 | 0.3 |
| Ohio | 47 | 0.4 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | 0.2 |
| Oregon | 30 | 0.7 |
| Pennsylvania | 43 | 0.3 |
| South Carolina | 3 | 0.1 |
| Tennessee | 1 | 0.0 |
| Texas | 25 | 0.1 |
| Utah | 38 | 1.1 |
| Vermont | 5 | 0.8 |
| Virginia | 2 | 0.0 |
| Washington | 10 | 0.1 |
| West Virginia | 7 | 0.4 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | 0.1 |
In federal data
- NUCC code175M00000X · Midwife, Lay
- Size rank346th of 688 specialties by records (0.01% of all)
- Part D prescribers1 (0.2% of records)
- Part D claims53 a year per prescriber, on average (408th of 496)
- Industry payments1 physicians paid $40 in 2024, $40 each on average
- Concentration8 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 lay midwife records
- Leshine Herfindahl, CDMGirdwood, AK1376726984
- Tasha GentileKodiak, AK1124497748
- Kayla Frank, CDMPalmer, AK1457711400
- Judi Davidson, CDM, CPMWasilla, AK1962625855
- Jackelyn Erwin, CDMWasilla, AK1831394097
- Jessica Sawyer, CDM, CPMWasilla, AK1063605467
- Samantha Keller, CDMWasilla, AK1407249121
- Christina Winton, CPMHoratio, AR1265148761
- Carrie Cobb, LICENSED MIDWIFELittle Rock, AR1578776845
- Diana Nash, LM, CPMLeslie, AR1184801961
- Emory Slater, LMMountain Home, AR1316491319
- Felicia Bumbalough, LLMTilly, AR1497402564
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
How should I read Lay Midwife's mid-pack national roster?
460 CMS-registered Lay Midwife providers sit across 45 states; Ohio leads with 47. Rank 346th of 688 NUCC specialties by headcount.
How does Lay Midwife show up in Open Payments mid-pack?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 1 Lay Midwife physicians receiving $40 across 2 payments (average $40; 454th of 470 specialties). Not a quality score.
How much Part D prescribing does this specialty do?
Among Lay Midwife NPIs, 1 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 53 claims and $808 drug cost per prescriber; 408th 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.