Music Therapist

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial process. · Updated August 2026

NUCC 225A00000X

3,460 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 52 states · 157th of 690 specialties by headcount.

3,460

Providers

CMS NPPES-registered

States

with ≥1 NPI

Florida

Top state

350 providers

0.05%

National share

of all NPIs

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Music Therapist ranks 157th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.05% of all registered NPIs), densest in Florida; per resident Minnesota leads.

3,460
NPPES providers in specialty: 157th
of 690 specialties: 473
state-share HHI: 0%
Part D prescriber share

Minnesota is densest per capita (2.7× the national rate; Iowa 2.4×).

Taxonomy fingerprint

Music Therapist (NUCC 225A00000X; 0% Part D prescribers (1 of 3,460); avg 12 Part D claims/prescriber (571st of 572); state-share HHI 473; next-larger headcount neighbor Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter (+44); next-smaller Allergy & Immunology Physician (-48)).

Next larger: Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter (3,504) Next smaller: Allergy & Immunology Physician (3,412)

Population-adjusted state index

Each multiple is this specialty's providers-per-resident in a state divided by the national rate (Census Vintage population estimates). Raw headcount favors large states; this ranking surfaces denser markets.

Over-indexed vs national rate

Minnesota 2.7× · 2.8/100k
Iowa 2.4× · 2.5/100k
Pennsylvania 2.1× · 2.1/100k
Arizona 1.9× · 2/100k
Wisconsin 1.9× · 1.9/100k

Under-indexed vs national rate

Mississippi 0.23× · 0.2/100k
Idaho 0.25× · 0.3/100k
Nevada 0.28× · 0.3/100k
Alabama 0.29× · 0.3/100k
Kentucky 0.32× · 0.3/100k

Which states have the most providers?

#	State	Providers	% of specialty
1	Florida	350	10.1%
2	New York	292	8.4%
3	Pennsylvania	275	7.9%
4	Texas	214	6.2%
5	California	175	5.1%
6	Michigan	165	4.8%
7	Minnesota	158	4.6%
8	Arizona	145	4.2%
9	Illinois	142	4.1%
10	Massachusetts	124	3.6%
11	Wisconsin	115	3.3%
12	Georgia	114	3.3%
13	Indiana	97	2.8%
14	Colorado	93	2.7%
15	Ohio	92	2.7%

Top Cities for Music Therapist

#	City	Providers
1	MiamiFlorida	98
2	BrooklynNew York	56
3	PhoenixArizona	47
4	New YorkNew York	47
5	WaterlooIowa	41
6	RoswellGeorgia	38
7	BirminghamMichigan	37
8	MinneapolisMinnesota	36
9	PhiladelphiaPennsylvania	35
10	Fort WayneIndiana	30
11	HoustonTexas	27
12	FriscoTexas	25

Sample Music Therapist NPIs

A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.

#	Provider	State
1	Veronica Andreassen, MA, MT BCDurham, NC	North Carolina
2	Sarah Thompson, MM, MT-BCAurora, CO	Colorado
3	Barbara Maclean, LCAT, MT-BC, FAMIAlbany, NY	New York
4	Celeste Chapko, M.ED., MT-BC, DOULACrown Point, IN	Indiana
5	Rachelle VishneowskiGlenmont, NY	New York
6	Aimee Davis, M.T.Mesa, AZ	Arizona
7	Jason Smith, M.T.Mesa, AZ	Arizona
8	Karen Vanhelden, M.T.Mesa, AZ	Arizona
9	Tina Haynes, MT-BC, LCATMurfreesboro, TN	Tennessee
10	Amy Miller, FCPEvansville, IN	Indiana
11	Virginia Dougherty, MT-BC, MOTR/LPittsburgh, PA	Pennsylvania
12	Julia Simpson, MHP, MT-BCMartinsburg, WV	West Virginia
13	Teresa Waldrop Burnett, LCSW, MT-BCBroken Arrow, OK	Oklahoma
14	Deborah SpiegelPueblo, CO	Colorado
15	Rachel Amberson, MT-BCSaint Cloud, MN	Minnesota
16	David Otto, MME, MT-BCWashington, DC	District of Columbia
17	Barbara Else, MT-BCTucson, AZ	Arizona
18	Claudia Newport, MT/BCDayton, OH	Ohio

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the large Music Therapist headcount concentrate?

3,460 Music Therapist NPIs span 52 states; Florida alone holds 350. Top metros include Miami, FL; Brooklyn, NY; Phoenix, AZ; New York, NY. Nationally this is 157th of 690 NUCC codes.

Where can I find a Music Therapist provider?

Music Therapist providers are listed in 52 states; Miami leads by raw city count. By national headcount this code sits just above Allergy & Immunology Physician and just below Audiologist-Hearing Aid Fitter. Browse by state or search by name.

How heavy is Music Therapist Part D prescribing at scale?

Among Music Therapist NPIs, 1 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 12 claims and $741 drug cost per prescriber; 571st of 572 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.

Data sources and methodology

Provider data from CMS NPPES (download.cms.gov/nppes). Specialty classification from NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org). Part D averages from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; industry payments from CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts reflect self-designated primary taxonomy at NPI enrollment. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Methodology · About

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-27.