Adult Companion
11,689 active US providers register Adult Companion as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.1% of every provider in the registry, and the 120th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 372600000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Related Providers
- Classification
- Adult Companion
- Active providers
- 11,689
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
An individual who provides supervision, socialization, and non-medical care to a functionally impaired adult. Companions may assist or supervise the individual with such tasks as meal preparation, laundry and shopping, but do not perform these activities as discrete services. These services are provided in accordance with a therapeutic goal in the plan of care.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 5,292 | |
| California | 2,073 | |
| Oregon | 965 | |
| Florida | 687 | |
| Ohio | 540 | |
| Nevada | 219 | |
| Michigan | 203 | |
| Texas | 199 | |
| Georgia | 112 | |
| District of Columbia | 110 | |
| New York | 96 | |
| Virginia | 80 | |
| Arkansas | 77 | |
| Louisiana | 68 | |
| North Carolina | 67 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
10,954 of these are people and 735 are organisations, so 6% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2025, and 8,692 registered in the last five years, 74% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
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.
- LINCOLN, NE1,614
- OMAHA, NE1,320
- PORTLAND, OR872
- SACRAMENTO, CA686
- GRAND ISLAND, NE351
- BELLEVUE, NE275
- MODESTO, CA273
- NORFOLK, NE257
- LAS VEGAS, NV195
- KEARNEY, NE141
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Adult Companion 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Personal Care Attendant | 825 | 7.1% |
| Chore Provider | 816 | 7.0% |
| Homemaker | 620 | 5.3% |
| Community Health Worker | 504 | 4.3% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 394 | 3.4% |
| Home Health Aide | 318 | 2.7% |
| Day Training/Habilitation Specialist | 145 | 1.2% |
| Nurse's Aide | 137 | 1.2% |
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.