NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Registered Nurse in Colorado

4,610 NPPES records list registered nurse with a practice address in Colorado, 78 per 100,000 residents, the 8th highest rate of 51. Denver and Aurora have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Colorado license search. Page 93 of 93.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 163W00000X · method

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

Denver has the most, 1,070

  1. Denver1,070
  2. Aurora540
  3. Colorado Springs345
  4. Greenwood Village218
  5. Fort Collins175

Registered Nurse records in Colorado

  1. Jinhua ZhangBroomfield, CO 800231447709852
  2. Jean Ziccardi, RNDenver, CO 802311275721755
  3. Amanda Ziegler Nordman, RNAurora, CO 800141467979062
  4. Wendy Zieker, RNColorado Springs, CO 809101598963514
  5. Shauna Zimmerer, RNAurora, CO 800141487042735
  6. Judy Zimmerlee, RNAurora, CO 800131154592574
  7. Leeann ZinkAurora, CO 800141811383649
  8. Shannon Zofchak, RNDenver, CO 802311033437066
  9. Guotianyuan ZuDenver, CO 802181740153733
  10. Lisa ZuercherDenver, CO 802311578745808

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 163W00000X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Colorado ranks 8 of 51 per resident

  1. Delaware94
  2. South Dakota87
  3. Ohio82
  4. Colorado78
  5. Wisconsin78
  6. Rhode Island74
  7. 50 states and D.C.44

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 163W00000X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.8% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 1.5% 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. Colorado0.8%
  2. United States1.5%

Registered Nurse records in Colorado, measured

  • In a Medicare file38 of 4,610 · 0.8% here, 1.5% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file10 · 0.2% here, 1.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more3,156 · 68.5% here, 57.2% nationally
  • Median graduation year2015 · the 10 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 163W00000X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

4,610 NPPES records list registered nurse (163W00000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Colorado: 78 per 100,000 residents against 44 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Denver has 1,070 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. Wisconsin4,628
  2. Florida4,722
  3. Massachusetts4,985
  4. Pennsylvania5,372

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Ohio81.9
  2. Rhode Island74.2
  3. New Mexico73.5
  4. Washington73.1

The largest states

  1. New York25,740
  2. California13,506
  3. Ohio9,656
  4. Texas8,921
  5. Washington5,708

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.