Basic Emergency Medical Technician
1,896 active US providers register Basic Emergency Medical Technician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 298th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 146N00000X
- Grouping
- Emergency Medical Service Providers
- Classification
- Emergency Medical Technician, Basic
- Active providers
- 1,896
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A Basic EMT is an individual trained and certified to perform basic life support treatment in medical emergencies based on individual state boards.
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 | 244 | |
| Washington | 137 | |
| Alabama | 118 | |
| Texas | 86 | |
| Georgia | 80 | |
| New York | 78 | |
| Florida | 62 | |
| New Jersey | 53 | |
| Pennsylvania | 52 | |
| Colorado | 46 | |
| Virginia | 41 | |
| Ohio | 41 | |
| Michigan | 38 | |
| South Carolina | 33 | |
| Arizona | 32 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,697 of these are people and 199 are organisations, so 10% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 732 registered in the last five years, 39% 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.
- FORT RUCKER, AL90
- TACOMA, WA49
- FORT STEWART, GA42
- NESPELEM, WA18
- HOUSTON, TX17
- PALO ALTO, CA15
- FRESNO, CA14
- LIVINGSTON, CA13
- SEATTLE, WA12
- SAN LEANDRO, CA12
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Basic Emergency Medical Technician 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Athletic Trainer | 26 | 1.4% |
| Paramedic | 19 | 1.0% |
| Intermediate Emergency Medical Technician | 18 | 0.9% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 13 | 0.7% |
| Ambulance | 10 | 0.5% |
| Nurse's Aide | 10 | 0.5% |
| Personal Emergency Response Attendant | 9 | 0.5% |
| Adult Companion | 8 | 0.4% |
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.