NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Registered Nurse in Kentucky

864 NPPES records list registered nurse with a practice address in Kentucky, 19 per 100,000 residents, the 48th highest rate of 51. Louisville and Prestonsburg have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Kentucky license search. Page 18 of 18.

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).

Louisville has the most, 180

  1. Louisville180
  2. Prestonsburg94
  3. Lexington81
  4. Ashland28
  5. Pikeville28

Registered Nurse records in Kentucky

  1. Mary Wright Ray, RNLexington, KY 403241972175156
  2. Joshua Yahr, RN, SANE P/ALexington, KY 405361801786728
  3. Audra YeagerIndependence, KY 410511346738259
  4. Melissa York, RNAshland, KY 411011538715479
  5. Robin Young, RNAshland, KY 411021669612537
  6. Shannon Young, RNFort Campbell, KY 422231730325499
  7. Hilary Younker, RNFort Campbell, KY 422231235364324
  8. Nicholas YowanUnion, KY 410911033039441
  9. Jorlan Zabalo Marquez, RNLouisville, KY 402151487507141
  10. Ming Zhou, RNLouisville, KY 402171194676395
  11. Sharon Zibart, RNLouisville, KY 402021881639961
  12. Melissa Zoeller, FNPLouisville, KY 402021306844477
  13. Hope Zoll, RNLouisville, KY 402411851283808
  14. Ketia Zuckschwerdt, RNLouisville, KY 402021871221275

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

Kentucky ranks 48 of 51 per resident

  1. Mississippi20
  2. Idaho20
  3. North Carolina19
  4. Kentucky19
  5. Louisiana19
  6. New Jersey17
  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. Kentucky0.8%
  2. United States1.5%

Registered Nurse records in Kentucky, measured

  • In a Medicare file7 of 864 · 0.8% here, 1.5% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file4 · 0.5% here, 1.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more421 · 48.7% here, 57.2% nationally

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

864 NPPES records list registered nurse (163W00000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Kentucky: 19 per 100,000 residents against 44 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Louisville has 180 of them (21%).

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. Louisiana869
  2. North Dakota856
  3. Hawaii891
  4. Iowa833

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. North Carolina19.4
  2. Guam18.2
  3. Idaho20.1
  4. Mississippi20.3

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.