NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Medical Physician Assistant in Tennessee

616 NPPES records list medical physician assistant with a practice address in Tennessee, 9 per 100,000 residents, the 37th highest rate of 51. Knoxville and Nashville have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Tennessee license search. Page 13 of 13.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 363AM0700X · method

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

Knoxville has the most, 75

  1. Knoxville75
  2. Nashville73
  3. Memphis36
  4. Chattanooga34
  5. Johnson City28

Medical Physician Assistant records in Tennessee

  1. William Wilson, PA-C, MMSC.Chattanooga, TN 374041497045728
  2. Mary Winfrey, PA-CUnionville, TN 371801467604470
  3. Keliea Winstead, PA-CMc Kenzie, TN 382011003353699
  4. Kendall Wolff, PA-CNashville, TN 372071477838910
  5. Daria Wood, PA-CClarksville, TN 370431295036440
  6. Maria Wood, PA-CChattanooga, TN 374041366417776
  7. Madison Woodard, PA-CKnoxville, TN 379321932090685
  8. Ronald Woody, PACMorristown, TN 378131669423547
  9. Gretchen WorthingtonHarrogate, TN 377521861328379
  10. Lacey Wright, PANashville, TN 372101417636572
  11. Mary Brooke Wyatt, PACrossville, TN 385551821286519
  12. Kelley Yandell, P.A.-C, R.D.Nashville, TN 372051427463538
  13. John Yates, PA-CEtowah, TN 373311245821438
  14. Marleen YosefAntioch, TN 370131972110831
  15. Douglas Young, PAColumbia, TN 384011962497081
  16. Kelsey Ziesig, PANashville, TN 372031992262489

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363AM0700X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Tennessee ranks 37 of 51 per resident

  1. Kansas9
  2. South Carolina9
  3. California9
  4. Tennessee9
  5. New Jersey9
  6. Minnesota8
  7. 50 states and D.C.12

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363AM0700X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

79.1% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 74.0% 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. Tennessee79.1%
  2. United States74.0%

Medical Physician Assistant records in Tennessee, measured

  • In a Medicare file487 of 616 · 79.1% here, 74.0% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file372 · 60.4% here, 54.5% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more277 · 45.0% here, 54.7% nationally
  • Median graduation year2015 · the 369 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 363AM0700X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

616 NPPES records list medical physician assistant (363AM0700X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Tennessee: 9 per 100,000 residents against 12 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Knoxville has 75 of them (12%).

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. Illinois671
  2. Wisconsin687
  3. Oregon699
  4. Oklahoma513

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. California8.7
  2. New Jersey8.5
  3. South Carolina9.2
  4. Minnesota8.0

The largest states

  1. Pennsylvania3,897
  2. New York3,670
  3. California3,376
  4. Florida2,776
  5. Texas2,146

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.