Access to Care – Nurse Practitioners
This indicator reports the number of nurses with a CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI). Nurses counted for this indicator include all advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and nurse practitioners, regardless of sub-specialty. Data are from the latest Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Provider Identifier (NPI) downloadable file.
Source
Source Description
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) provides basic information about all organization and individual providers with a National Provider Identifier (NPI). The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is unique identification number for health care providers, including both organizations and individuals. Each month, CMS provides an updated data file available for download which contains FOIA-disclosable NPPES health care provider information, including name, credential, practice location address, and practice type based on multiple (primary, secondary, tertiary, etc.) taxonomy codes. Additional information about the NPPES downloadable file can be found here.
Methodology
Data are from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) National Provider Identifier (NPI) downloadable file. This file includes directory information for all Medicare providers that had a valid National Provider Identifier (NPI). Provider information contained in this file includes name, credentials, gender, specialty, and complete address. Physician types displayed here* are distinguished based on provider type taxonomy codes and the “provider type” listed in the data file. Addresses in the final dataset were geocoded using ESRI geocoding services. For more information, please refer to the CMS National Provider Identifier documentation, available here .
*As defined by the American Academy of Family Physicians, primary care physicians include doctors specializing in Family Practice, General Practice, Pediatric Medicine, and Internal Medicine. Physicians specializing in other disciplines like obstetrics/gynecology, and non-physician providers like nurse practitioners may also provide primary care to patients.
Mental health care providers are those specializing in psychiatry, psychology, mental health, addiction or substance use disorders, or counselling.
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