NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Massage Therapist in Louisiana

654 NPPES records list massage therapist with a practice address in Louisiana, 14 per 100,000 residents, the 27th highest rate of 51. New Orleans and Baton Rouge have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Louisiana license search. Page 14 of 14.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 225700000X · method

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

New Orleans has the most, 84

  1. New Orleans84
  2. Baton Rouge74
  3. Lafayette68
  4. Metairie63
  5. Shreveport20

Massage Therapist records in Louisiana

  1. Noel WrightMetairie, LA 700051881843498
  2. Kasi Yaeger, LA8322Covington, LA 704331851227193
  3. Cassidy YelvertonCovington, LA 704331245011444
  4. Christa YoungbloodShreveport, LA 711291922826734

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 225700000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Louisiana ranks 27 of 51 per resident

  1. North Carolina15
  2. North Dakota15
  3. Massachusetts14
  4. Louisiana14
  5. Wyoming14
  6. Nevada14
  7. 50 states and D.C.21

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 225700000X 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 under 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. Louisiana0.0%
  2. United States0.0%

Massage Therapist records in Louisiana, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 654 · 0.0% here, under 0.1% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, under 0.1% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more286 · 43.7% here, 61.9% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 225700000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

654 NPPES records list massage therapist (225700000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Louisiana: 14 per 100,000 residents against 21 nationally (50 states and D.C.). New Orleans has 84 of them (13%).

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. Maryland675
  2. New Mexico689
  3. Maine613
  4. South Carolina591

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Massachusetts14.5
  2. North Dakota14.5
  3. Wyoming14.0
  4. Nevada13.9

The largest states

  1. Washington13,143
  2. Florida6,942
  3. Oregon6,084
  4. California5,115
  5. New York3,887

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.