NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Pastoral Counselor in Montana

12 NPPES records list pastoral counselor with a practice address in Montana, 1.1 per 100,000 residents, the 9th highest rate of 51. Billings and Missoula have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Montana license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 101YP1600X · method

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

Billings has the most, 10

  1. Billings10
  2. Missoula1
  3. Whitefish1

Pastoral Counselor records in Montana

  1. Amy Bark, LMSW-CLINICALBillings, MT 591061346029972
  2. Sydney Blanchard, MA, LPCCBillings, MT 591061295511541
  3. Minji ChaiBillings, MT 591031568282093
  4. Joseph De Cree, MAWhitefish, MT 599371588538318
  5. Jodi Handran, LCCCMissoula, MT 598011881073914
  6. Caroline Horton, LPC-MHSP(T)Billings, MT 591031609737774
  7. Megan Hughes, LMSWBillings, MT 591061861772733
  8. Adina James, LMHCBillings, MT 591061710518972
  9. Nathaniel NevedalBillings, MT 591061790494144
  10. Victoria PennellBillings, MT 591031568384147
  11. Danielle SchaeferBillings, MT 591061235713710
  12. Josh Spurlock, MA, LPC, NICCBillings, MT 591061467608679

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 101YP1600X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Montana ranks 9 of 51 per resident

  1. Louisiana1.1
  2. Alaska1.1
  3. North Carolina1.1
  4. Montana1.1
  5. Maine1.0
  6. Delaware1.0
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.6

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 101YP1600X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 0.7% 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. Montana0.0%
  2. United States0.7%

Pastoral Counselor records in Montana, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 12 · 0.0% here, 0.7% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, 1.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more1 · 8.3% here, 53.4% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 101YP1600X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

12 NPPES records list pastoral counselor (101YP1600X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Montana: 1.1 per 100,000 residents against 0.6 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Billings has 10 of them (83%).

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. Kansas12
  2. Nebraska11
  3. Delaware10
  4. Maine14

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. North Carolina1.1
  2. Louisiana1.1
  3. Nevada0.9
  4. South Carolina0.9

The largest states

  1. Florida180
  2. California143
  3. Texas139
  4. Georgia136
  5. North Carolina118

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.