NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Registered Nurse in South Carolina

1,761 NPPES records list registered nurse with a practice address in South Carolina, 33 per 100,000 residents, the 32nd highest rate of 51. Greenville and Columbia have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the South Carolina license search. Page 36 of 36.

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).

Greenville has the most, 261

  1. Greenville261
  2. Columbia175
  3. Charleston171
  4. Florence80
  5. Lexington56

Registered Nurse records in South Carolina

  1. Angela Youngblood, RNColumbia, SC 292121831411081
  2. Tracey Zacharias, RNGreenville, SC 296051912249707
  3. Lisa ZaliauskasHilton Head Island, SC 299261275320756
  4. Carsyn Zambrano, RNAiken, SC 298011881270429
  5. Vicky Zelenka, R.N.Florence, SC 295011023437894
  6. Dawn Zercher, RNEasley, SC 296401710229802
  7. Christine Zeuner, RNVarnville, SC 299441891959623
  8. Richard Zhelezny, RNGreenville, SC 296111699698340
  9. Katherine Zielke, RNColumbia, SC 292011912372996
  10. Donna Ziemer Ditzel, RN,RDGreer, SC 296511003734088
  11. Gregory Zumsteg, BSNGreenville, SC 296051013858281

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

South Carolina ranks 32 of 51 per resident

  1. Oklahoma36
  2. California35
  3. Kansas34
  4. South Carolina33
  5. Vermont31
  6. Georgia30
  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.

1.7% 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. South Carolina1.7%
  2. United States1.5%

Registered Nurse records in South Carolina, measured

  • In a Medicare file30 of 1,761 · 1.7% here, 1.5% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file19 · 1.1% here, 1.0% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more1,159 · 65.8% here, 57.2% nationally
  • Median graduation year2024 · the 19 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

1,761 NPPES records list registered nurse (163W00000X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in South Carolina: 33 per 100,000 residents against 44 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Greenville has 261 of them (15%).

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. New Jersey1,613
  2. Missouri1,586
  3. New Mexico1,554
  4. Alabama1,486

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Kansas33.9
  2. Vermont31.0
  3. California34.7
  4. Georgia29.8

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.