NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Surgical Assistant in Missouri

15 NPPES records list surgical assistant with a practice address in Missouri, 0.2 per 100,000 residents, the 39th highest rate of 49. Saint Louis and Kansas City have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Missouri license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 246ZC0007X · method

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

Saint Louis has the most, 4

  1. Saint Louis4
  2. Kansas City2
  3. Cabool1
  4. Camdenton1
  5. Chesterfield1

Surgical Assistant records in Missouri

  1. Derek AndersonSaint Louis, MO 631071497416598
  2. Brian Ash, CSFASaint Louis, MO 631231598929499
  3. Janna Hightower, CST/CFASpringfield, MO 658041396916615
  4. Dewayne JohnsonFlorissant, MO 630311306526686
  5. Alvin Lawson, CSFACamdenton, MO 650201366988792
  6. Ashtin MastersCabool, MO 656891962341701
  7. Angela Moran, CST/CFAKansas City, MO 641511063601151
  8. David MorrisKansas City, MO 641551073072740
  9. Zachary Owen, CST, CSFAOronogo, MO 648551134045792
  10. Teresa Poe, CST/CSFASaint Louis, MO 631221992344345
  11. Kimberly Reinbold, CSFADes Peres, MO 631311518787308
  12. Jennifer Samargo, CST, CSFASaint Louis, MO 631461518506567
  13. John Strobel, CFAConway, MO 656321659517613
  14. Kevin Templin, OPA-C, ATCChesterfield, MO 630171477837292
  15. Kelly Wenberg, CSFAClinton, MO 647351699423111

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 246ZC0007X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Missouri ranks 39 of 49 per resident

  1. Arkansas0.3
  2. Pennsylvania0.3
  3. New York0.3
  4. Missouri0.2
  5. Massachusetts0.2
  6. Hawaii0.2
  7. 50 states and D.C.1.4

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 246ZC0007X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

0.0% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 0.5% 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. Missouri0.0%
  2. United States0.5%

Surgical Assistant records in Missouri, measured

  • In a Medicare file0 of 15 · 0.0% here, 0.5% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file0 · 0.0% here, 0.3% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more8 · 53.3% here, 55.7% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 246ZC0007X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

15 NPPES records list surgical assistant (246ZC0007X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Missouri: 0.2 per 100,000 residents against 1.4 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Saint Louis has 4 of them (27%).

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. Iowa15
  2. Massachusetts15
  3. District of Columbia14
  4. Utah16

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. New York0.3
  2. Michigan0.2
  3. Pennsylvania0.3
  4. Arkansas0.3

The largest states

  1. Texas1,118
  2. Florida900
  3. Georgia325
  4. Virginia302
  5. Illinois261

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.