Technician/Technologist

NUCC 156F00000X

3,985 CMS NPPES-registered providers across 51 states · 146th of 690 specialties by headcount.

3,985
Providers
CMS NPPES-registered
51
States
with ≥1 NPI
Michigan
Top state
2,831 providers
$336
Open Pay avg
415th of 551 specialties

Where this specialty sits in the corpus

Technician/Technologist ranks 146th of 690 NUCC specialties by CMS NPPES headcount (0.05% of all registered NPIs), densest in Michigan; per resident Michigan leads.

3,985
NPPES providers in specialty
146th
of 690 specialties
5087
state-share HHI
0.1%
Part D prescriber share

Michigan is densest per capita (23.9× the national rate).

Taxonomy fingerprint

Technician/Technologist (NUCC 156F00000X; 0.1% Part D prescribers (4 of 3,985); avg 91 Part D claims/prescriber (498th of 572); Open Payments avg $336/physician (415th of 551; 6 paid, $2K total); state-share HHI 5,087; next-larger headcount neighbor Medical Oncology Physician (+43); next-smaller Electroneurodiagnostic Specialist/Technologist (-71)).

Next larger: Medical Oncology Physician (4,028) Next smaller: Electroneurodiagnostic Specialist/Technologist (3,914)

Population-adjusted state index

Each multiple is this specialty's providers-per-resident in a state divided by the national rate (Census Vintage population estimates). Raw headcount favors large states; this ranking surfaces denser markets.

Over-indexed vs national rate

Under-indexed vs national rate

Which states have the most providers?

#StateProviders
1Michigan2,831
2California146
3Florida82
4Texas82
5Georgia73
6Ohio70
7Washington54
8New York50
9Pennsylvania37
10Missouri31
11Tennessee31
12Illinois30
13Oregon30
14Puerto Rico27
15Arizona26

Top Cities for Technician/Technologist

#CityProviders
1Bingham FarmsMichigan1,550
2Sterling HeightsMichigan253
3DearbornMichigan230
4LansingMichigan128
5LivoniaMichigan95
6Grosse Pointe WoodsMichigan64
7Farmington HillsMichigan50
8Shelby TownshipMichigan45
9OwossoMichigan44
10DetroitMichigan39
11ToledoOhio25
12SacramentoCalifornia22

Sample Technician/Technologist NPIs

A directory sample from this NUCC code (not a ranking). Names and locations are unique to this taxonomy.

#Provider
1Brian Hamon, SA-C, OA-CToccoa, GA
2Teresa Marshall-Bradbury, RPSGTLeominster, MA
3Karen DammOrange Park, FL
4Patricia Elsperman, OTR/LEvansville, IN
5Kristina Hughes, COMS, TVI, CVRTEvansville, IN
6Michael BeckerWest Hempstead, NY
7Brenda Polster, B.S., O.T.Bloomington, IN
8Robert Miller, OWNERSterling Heights, MI
9Reynaldo Malonjao, LDOHuber Heights, OH
10Lee PierceNorfolk, VA
11Patricia Cervantes, COALackland Afb, TX
12Stephen Henion, LO LICENSED OPTICIANWaterbury, CT
13Jack Shaw, OPTICIANChicago, IL
14Yacouba KonateBrooklyn, NY
15Alice MazzaferroSpringfield, MA
16Maribel Ramirez, COTDoral, FL
17Sulpicia LimChicago, IL
18Timothy Wiley, RDOSan Jose, CA

Adjacent specialties in the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where does the large Technician/Technologist headcount concentrate?
3,985 Technician/Technologist NPIs span 51 states; Michigan alone holds 2,831. Top metros include Bingham Farms, MI; Sterling Heights, MI; Dearborn, MI; Lansing, MI. Nationally this is 146th of 690 NUCC codes.
How large is Technician/Technologist's Open Payments footprint?
CMS Open Payments 2024 lists 6 Technician/Technologist physicians totaling $2K (39 payments; average $336, 415th of 551). Presence in Open Payments is not a quality judgment.
How heavy is Technician/Technologist Part D prescribing at scale?
Among Technician/Technologist NPIs, 4 appear in the Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF (average 91 claims and $8K drug cost per prescriber; 498th of 572 specialties by average claims). Non-prescribing clinicians in the same NUCC code are still in NPPES.
Data sources and methodology

Provider data from CMS NPPES (download.cms.gov/nppes). Specialty classification from NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy (nucc.org). Part D averages from the CMS Medicare Part D Prescriber PUF; industry payments from CMS Open Payments 2024. Counts reflect self-designated primary taxonomy at NPI enrollment. PlainDoctor does not rate or rank providers. Methodology · About

Every figure on PlainDoctor is rendered directly from the federal CMS NPPES registry, Medicare Part D, MIPS, and Open Payments records, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-27.