NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Mental Health Counselor in South Dakota

753 NPPES records list mental health counselor with a practice address in South Dakota, 82 per 100,000 residents, the 25th highest rate of 51. Sioux Falls and Rapid City have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the South Dakota license search. Page 16 of 16.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 101YM0800X · method

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

Sioux Falls has the most, 208

  1. Sioux Falls208
  2. Rapid City147
  3. Aberdeen84
  4. Yankton70
  5. Watertown34

Mental Health Counselor records in South Dakota

  1. Bailey Zerfoss, MS, LPC SUPERVISEEHuron, SD 573501952055998
  2. Ashley Zimmer-LarsenSioux Falls, SD 571081720804636
  3. Megan ZweberYankton, SD 570781366768616

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 101YM0800X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

South Dakota ranks 25 of 51 per resident

  1. Maine82
  2. Idaho82
  3. Utah82
  4. South Dakota82
  5. North Carolina82
  6. Iowa80
  7. 50 states and D.C.87

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 101YM0800X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

11.3% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 5.2% 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. South Dakota11.3%
  2. United States5.2%

Mental Health Counselor records in South Dakota, measured

  • In a Medicare file85 of 753 · 11.3% here, 5.2% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file162 · 21.5% here, 8.5% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more375 · 49.8% here, 52.6% nationally
  • Median graduation year2011 · the 162 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 101YM0800X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

753 NPPES records list mental health counselor (101YM0800X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in South Dakota: 82 per 100,000 residents against 87 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Sioux Falls has 208 of them (28%).

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. District of Columbia751
  2. Kansas716
  3. Delaware793
  4. West Virginia694

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. North Carolina81.7
  2. Utah82.3
  3. Idaho82.5
  4. Maine82.5

The largest states

  1. California28,617
  2. Florida23,249
  3. New York19,989
  4. Massachusetts18,415
  5. Washington18,094

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.