Acupuncturist
43,447 active US providers register Acupuncturist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.5% of every provider in the registry, and the 51st largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 171100000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Acupuncturist
- Active providers
- 43,447
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An acupuncturist is a person who performs ancient therapy for alleviation of pain, anesthesia and treatment of some diseases. Acupuncturists use long, fine needles inserted into specific points in order to treat painful conditions or produce anesthesia.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 13,717 | |
| New York | 5,390 | |
| Florida | 3,290 | |
| Oregon | 2,060 | |
| Washington | 1,840 | |
| Maryland | 1,518 | |
| New Jersey | 1,493 | |
| Colorado | 1,487 | |
| Massachusetts | 1,485 | |
| Texas | 1,396 | |
| Illinois | 1,012 | |
| Minnesota | 785 | |
| Pennsylvania | 706 | |
| Arizona | 702 | |
| New Mexico | 630 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
33,394 of these are people and 10,053 are organisations, so 23% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2014, and 8,437 registered in the last five years, 19% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- NEW YORK, NY1,637
- LOS ANGELES, CA1,489
- PORTLAND, OR1,109
- SAN DIEGO, CA800
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA752
- SAN JOSE, CA631
- SEATTLE, WA564
- BROOKLYN, NY535
- AUSTIN, TX429
- CHICAGO, IL420
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Acupuncturist most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Massage Therapist | 1,276 | 2.9% |
| Chiropractor | 412 | 0.9% |
| Naturopath | 294 | 0.7% |
| Physical Therapist | 156 | 0.4% |
| Registered Nurse | 121 | 0.3% |
| Specialist | 92 | 0.2% |
| Nutritionist | 54 | 0.1% |
| Clinic/Center | 51 | 0.1% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.