Nurse Practitioner
NUCC 363L00000X
87,700 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 56 states · 23rd of 690 specialties by headcount.
Where this specialty sits in the corpus
Nurse Practitioner ranks 23rd of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (1.24% of all registered NPIs), densest in Florida; per resident Wisconsin leads.
- 87,700
- NPPES providers in specialty
- 23rd
- of 690 specialties
- 385
- state-share HHI
- 54.5%
- Part D prescriber share
Wisconsin is densest per capita (2.2× the national rate; North Dakota 1.9×).
Taxonomy fingerprint
Nurse Practitioner (NUCC 363L00000X; 54.5% Part D prescribers (47,832 of 87,700); avg 1,084 Part D claims/prescriber (122nd of 567); Open Payments avg $803/physician (295th of 552; 36,104 paid, $29.0M total); state-share HHI 385; next-larger headcount neighbor Dentist (+6,093); next-smaller Marriage & Family Therapist (-1)).
Next larger: Dentist (93,793) Next smaller: Marriage & Family Therapist (87,699)
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
- Wisconsin 2.2× · 57.4/100k
- North Dakota 1.9× · 50.6/100k
- South Dakota 1.8× · 47/100k
- Massachusetts 1.8× · 45.4/100k
- Delaware 1.7× · 43.7/100k
Under-indexed vs national rate
- Puerto Rico 0.02× · 0.4/100k
- Guam 0.15× · 3.9/100k
- Virgin Islands 0.22× · 5.7/100k
- Oregon 0.54× · 14/100k
- Hawaii 0.55× · 14.1/100k
Which states have the most providers?
| # | State | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida | 8,323 |
| 2 | California | 6,916 |
| 3 | Texas | 4,809 |
| 4 | North Carolina | 3,928 |
| 5 | Illinois | 3,844 |
| 6 | Ohio | 3,750 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 3,554 |
| 8 | Wisconsin | 3,391 |
| 9 | Massachusetts | 3,177 |
| 10 | Michigan | 3,154 |
| 11 | New York | 2,910 |
| 12 | Georgia | 2,717 |
| 13 | Indiana | 2,372 |
| 14 | Tennessee | 2,340 |
| 15 | Minnesota | 2,238 |
Top Cities for Nurse Practitioner
| # | City | Providers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MiamiFlorida | 815 |
| 2 | BostonMassachusetts | 803 |
| 3 | HoustonTexas | 774 |
| 4 | RochesterMinnesota | 728 |
| 5 | ChicagoIllinois | 709 |
| 6 | CharlotteNorth Carolina | 690 |
| 7 | TampaFlorida | 684 |
| 8 | JacksonvilleFlorida | 658 |
| 9 | MilwaukeeWisconsin | 632 |
| 10 | SeattleWashington | 585 |
| 11 | CincinnatiOhio | 558 |
| 12 | ColumbusOhio | 498 |
Sample Nurse Practitioner NPIs
A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.
| # | Provider |
|---|---|
| 1 | Debra Trotchie, APNLas Vegas, NV |
| 2 | Cheryl Rudnicke, CRNPNashville, TN |
| 3 | Jacqueline Myers, AND, BSN, MS, ANPLancaster, OH |
| 4 | Todd Thomason, ARNP, NP-CPembroke Pines, FL |
| 5 | Nathan Russell, FNPHendersonville, TN |
| 6 | Richard Close, A.R.N.P.Pembroke Pines, FL |
| 7 | Maureen Polakowski, CRNP, DNPDallas, TX |
| 8 | Jill Johnson, M.S.N., A.P.R.N.Sylvania, OH |
| 9 | Elizabeth Coll, NPClifton, NJ |
| 10 | Jo Anne Baxter, N.PTemple Terrace, FL |
| 11 | Amy Asher Wilson, APRNWhitesburg, KY |
| 12 | Suzanne Glisson, N.P.Tampa, FL |
| 13 | Sheila Bradley, FNPHouston, TX |
| 14 | Sheri Ratliff, ACNPHazard, KY |
| 15 | Amy Friedman-Lee, NPNorth Reading, MA |
| 16 | Darlene Tierney, ARNPMontgomery, OH |
| 17 | Robyn Burwell, A.R.N.P., PMHNP-BCPhillipsburg, KS |
| 18 | Tammy Cerniglia, ARNPBradenton, FL |
Related Specialties
Adjacent specialties in the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy.
Frequently Asked Questions
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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 2026-05-20.