NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Registered Nurse in Rhode Island

813 NPPES records list registered nurse with a practice address in Rhode Island, 74 per 100,000 residents, the 10th highest rate of 51. Providence and Woonsocket have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Rhode Island license search. Page 17 of 17.

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).

Providence has the most, 313

  1. Providence313
  2. Woonsocket108
  3. Warwick57
  4. Pawtucket46
  5. Middletown40

Registered Nurse records in Rhode Island

  1. Heather WinerWoonsocket, RI 028951942898077
  2. Martha Winfield, RNWarwick, RI 028861427163880
  3. Sarah WirtensonWoonsocket, RI 028951194566836
  4. Cristina WisePawtucket, RI 028601043140510
  5. Jeannine WithamCranston, RI 029201679362453
  6. Margaret Wogbeh, RNProvidence, RI 029071457128555
  7. James Wood, RNProvidence, RI 029041396597555
  8. Christine Wood-Grattan, RN.Providence, RI 029051760117998
  9. Chantel WorthingFoster, RI 028251821916768
  10. Julie Yelle, RNProvidence, RI 029041982103636
  11. Ruth Zaccaria, RNMiddletown, RI 028421306941323
  12. Laurie ZurawskiProvidence, RI 029041477218956
  13. Elizabeth Zwick, RNNorth Kingstown, RI 028521407274483

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

Rhode Island ranks 10 of 51 per resident

  1. Ohio82
  2. Colorado78
  3. Wisconsin78
  4. Rhode Island74
  5. New Mexico73
  6. Washington73
  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.

0.2% 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. Rhode Island0.2%
  2. United States1.5%

Registered Nurse records in Rhode Island, measured

  • In a Medicare file2 of 813 · 0.2% here, 1.5% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file1 · 0.1% here, 1.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more494 · 60.8% 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

813 NPPES records list registered nurse (163W00000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Rhode Island: 74 per 100,000 residents against 44 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Providence has 313 of them (38%).

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. District of Columbia812
  2. South Dakota799
  3. Iowa833
  4. North Dakota856

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New Mexico73.5
  2. Washington73.1
  3. Massachusetts71.2
  4. Wisconsin78.3

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.