NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner in South Carolina

158 NPPES records list primary care nurse practitioner with a practice address in South Carolina, 2.9 per 100,000 residents, the 34th highest rate of 51. Columbia and Charleston have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the South Carolina license search. Page 4 of 4.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 363LP2300X · method

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

Columbia has the most, 36

  1. Columbia36
  2. Charleston15
  3. Florence10
  4. Greenville6
  5. Myrtle Beach6

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner records in South Carolina

  1. Samantha Vaught, APRNNorth Myrtle Beach, SC 295821902614191
  2. Courtney Wages, DNPCayce, SC 290331144142613
  3. Grace WestonBluffton, SC 299101730051376
  4. Cheryl WilliamsCharleston, SC 294011740950278
  5. Deidra Willis, A- GNPColumbia, SC 292091114452901
  6. Cassandra Wright, APRNRidgeland, SC 299361568357457
  7. Paige Young, FNP-CConway, SC 295261982305843
  8. Sarah ZourzoukisNorth Charleston, SC 294201912604380

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363LP2300X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

South Carolina ranks 34 of 51 per resident

  1. Georgia3.1
  2. Oklahoma3.1
  3. Louisiana3.0
  4. South Carolina2.9
  5. California2.9
  6. Missouri2.8
  7. 50 states and D.C.3.3

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 363LP2300X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

75.9% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 69.2% 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 Carolina75.9%
  2. United States69.2%

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner records in South Carolina, measured

  • In a Medicare file120 of 158 · 75.9% here, 69.2% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file95 · 60.1% here, 49.4% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more52 · 32.9% here, 38.2% nationally
  • Median graduation year2020 · the 95 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 363LP2300X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

158 NPPES records list primary care nurse practitioner (363LP2300X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in South Carolina: 2.9 per 100,000 residents against 3.3 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Columbia has 36 of them (23%).

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. Minnesota157
  2. Indiana168
  3. Connecticut173
  4. Missouri175

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. California2.9
  2. Louisiana3.0
  3. Oklahoma3.1
  4. Utah2.8

The largest states

  1. California1,131
  2. Florida1,082
  3. Texas822
  4. Ohio498
  5. Pennsylvania481

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.