Ambulance
6,467 active US providers register Ambulance as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.07% of every provider in the registry, and the 167th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 341600000X
- Grouping
- Transportation Services
- Classification
- Ambulance
- Active providers
- 6,467
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An emergency vehicle used for transporting patients to a health care facility after injury or illness. Types of ambulances used in the United States include ground (surface) ambulance, rotor-wing (helicopter), and fixed-wing aircraft (airplane).
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 920 | |
| Ohio | 748 | |
| New York | 360 | |
| Pennsylvania | 356 | |
| California | 270 | |
| Illinois | 250 | |
| New Jersey | 237 | |
| Indiana | 212 | |
| Georgia | 178 | |
| Virginia | 158 | |
| South Carolina | 146 | |
| Massachusetts | 143 | |
| Florida | 138 | |
| Michigan | 133 | |
| Iowa | 108 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
98 of these are people and 6,369 are organisations, so 98% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 613 registered in the last five years, 9% of the current population.
That is a slow-growing code, which usually means an established field replacing retirements rather than expanding.
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.
- HOUSTON, TX305
- PHILADELPHIA, PA44
- HUNTINGDON VALLEY, PA40
- CINCINNATI, OH36
- SAN ANTONIO, TX33
- MCALLEN, TX22
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN20
- COLUMBUS, OH19
- BROOKLYN, NY18
- RICHMOND, TX18
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Ambulance 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Land Ambulance | 636 | 9.8% |
| Non-emergency Medical Transport (VAN) | 170 | 2.6% |
| Air Ambulance | 64 | 1.0% |
| Secured Medical Transport (VAN) | 32 | 0.5% |
| Paramedic | 26 | 0.4% |
| Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician | 15 | 0.2% |
| Basic Emergency Medical Technician | 14 | 0.2% |
| Transportation Broker | 14 | 0.2% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Ambulance.
- Air Ambulance1,298
- Land Ambulance12,315
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.