Midwife providers in the U.S.
6,062 NPPES records list midwife as their primary taxonomy, about 1.8 per 100,000 residents; Alaska and Idaho have the most per resident. 409 of them appear in the Medicare Part D prescriber file: a registry record is not proof of an active practice.
What taxonomy code 176B00000X means
176B00000X is the National Uniform Claim Committee code for Midwife, in the grouping Other Service Providers. 6,062 NPPES records list it as their primary taxonomy (file of Aug 9, 2026).
A Midwife is a trained professional with special expertise in supporting women to maintain a healthy pregnancy birth, offering expert individualized care, education, counseling, and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle. A Midwife is a skilled and independent practitioner who has undergone formalized training. Midwives are not required to be nurses and may be trained via multiple routes of education (apprenticeship, workshop, formal classes, or programs, etc., usually a combination). The educational background requirements and licensing requirements vary by state. The Midwife may or may not be certified by a state or national organization.
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 176B00000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.
Brooklyn has the most, 103
Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 176B00000X by practice city, file of Aug 9, 2026.
All 51 by state
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 34 | 0.7 |
| Alaska | 65 | 8.9 |
| Arizona | 159 | 2.1 |
| Arkansas | 27 | 0.9 |
| California | 762 | 2.0 |
| Colorado | 177 | 3.0 |
| Connecticut | 42 | 1.2 |
| Delaware | 17 | 1.6 |
| District of Columbia | 13 | 1.9 |
| Florida | 347 | 1.5 |
| Georgia | 109 | 1.0 |
| Hawaii | 30 | 2.1 |
| Idaho | 128 | 6.5 |
| Illinois | 89 | 0.7 |
| Indiana | 44 | 0.6 |
| Iowa | 33 | 1.0 |
| Kansas | 42 | 1.4 |
| Kentucky | 40 | 0.9 |
| Louisiana | 41 | 0.9 |
| Maine | 57 | 4.1 |
| Maryland | 110 | 1.8 |
| Massachusetts | 142 | 2.0 |
| Michigan | 142 | 1.4 |
| Minnesota | 144 | 2.5 |
| Mississippi | 16 | 0.5 |
| Missouri | 105 | 1.7 |
| State | Records | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Montana | 56 | 4.9 |
| Nebraska | 9 | 0.5 |
| Nevada | 50 | 1.6 |
| New Hampshire | 42 | 3.0 |
| New Jersey | 118 | 1.3 |
| New Mexico | 118 | 5.6 |
| New York | 494 | 2.5 |
| North Carolina | 80 | 0.7 |
| North Dakota | 3 | 0.4 |
| Ohio | 142 | 1.2 |
| Oklahoma | 50 | 1.2 |
| Oregon | 204 | 4.8 |
| Pennsylvania | 209 | 1.6 |
| Rhode Island | 23 | 2.1 |
| South Carolina | 69 | 1.3 |
| South Dakota | 15 | 1.6 |
| Tennessee | 124 | 1.7 |
| Texas | 503 | 1.6 |
| Utah | 138 | 4.0 |
| Vermont | 36 | 5.6 |
| Virginia | 167 | 1.9 |
| Washington | 298 | 3.8 |
| West Virginia | 36 | 2.0 |
| Wisconsin | 134 | 2.3 |
| Wyoming | 12 | 2.1 |
In federal data
- NUCC code176B00000X
- Size rank125th of 688 specialties by records (0.08% of all)
- Part D prescribers409 (6.7% of records)
- Part D claims60 a year per prescriber, on average (393rd of 496)
- Industry payments497 physicians paid $88K in 2024, $177 each on average
- Concentration9 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 midwife records
- Samantha Beard, CDMAnchorage, AK1538651039
- Jessica Johnston, CDMAnchorage, AK1386133023
- Cynthia Earley, CDMAnchorage, AK1922337104
- Mary Ross, CNMAnchorage, AK1124015649
- Colleen Carey, CNMAnchorage, AK1851388375
- Patricia Townsend, CNMAnchorage, AK1851312920
- Laura Gore, CDMAnchorage, AK1770629198
- Kathryn Adams, CDMAnchorage, AK1306022157
- Felicity Smith, CDMAnchorage, AK1306160635
- Bethel BelisleAnchorage, AK1780942698
- Margaret David, CNMAnchorage, AK1497272447
- Noa Kellar, CDM CPMAnchorage, AK1821503319
- Rachel Pugh, CDMAnchorage, AK1417422510
- Julia KovalAnchorage, AK1053874388
- Santhia Rose, CNMAnchorage, AK1194305730
- Rosa Morrissett, CNMAnchorage, AK1043913965
Registry order, not a ranking. Search by name to find one provider.
Common questions
Where does the large Midwife headcount concentrate?
6,062 Midwife NPIs span 54 states; California alone holds 762. Top metros include Brooklyn, NY; Portland, OR; New York, NY; Bronx, NY. Nationally this is 125th of 688 NUCC codes.
How large is Midwife's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 497 Midwife physicians totaling $88K (2,096 payments; average $177, 367th of 470). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Midwife Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Midwife NPIs, 409 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 60 claims and $5K drug cost per prescriber; 393rd 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.