Reading the Idaho data

Idaho is represented in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System by 32,076 individual healthcare providers enrolled across 458 NUCC taxonomy specialties, distributed among 30+ cities that each cross the 10-provider reporting threshold. These figures cover every clinician — physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, therapists, psychologists, and other credentialed individual providers — who has a current active NPI on file with CMS and has listed a primary practice address somewhere inside Idaho. Organizations (hospitals, group practices, pharmacies) are tracked on a separate NPPES record and are not counted in this total.

The state's dominant provider specialty is Pharmacist, which accounts for 1,745 of the 32,076 enrolled clinicians, followed by Physical Therapist (1,691) and Mental Health Counselor (1,667). That ranking reflects which NUCC code each provider submitted as their primary taxonomy — clinicians with secondary specialties are only counted once, so the mix understates dual-trained practitioners such as internal-medicine subspecialists. Geographic concentration follows the population curve: the top $5 cities in Idaho collectively hold a disproportionate share of the state's providers, while rural counties often show dozens of NPIs rather than hundreds, which matters for access-to-care analysis but is not captured in a statewide average.

Use this page to drill from state-level totals down to individual provider profiles: browse by specialty to find the right training, by city to narrow on location, or search by NPI or name if you already have a specific clinician in mind. Important: PlainDoctor is a directory of publicly available CMS government data, not a quality ranking, a review aggregator, or medical advice. NPPES data is self-reported and refreshed monthly, so any given practice address or phone number may be outdated; call the provider directly to confirm current location, insurance acceptance, and new-patient availability before making appointments. Verify credentials through the NPPES NPI Registry and your Idaho medical board for licensure and disciplinary history, which are not shown on this page.