Birthing Clinic/Center
1,395 active US providers register Birthing Clinic/Center as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 343rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 261QB0400X
- Grouping
- Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
- Classification
- Clinic/Center
- Specialization
- Birthing
- Active providers
- 1,395
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
A freestanding birth center is a health facility other than a hospital where childbirth is planned to occur away from the pregnant woman's residence, and that provides prenatal, labor and delivery, and postpartum care, as well as other ambulatory services for women and newborns.
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 | 165 | |
| California | 160 | |
| Florida | 96 | |
| Colorado | 79 | |
| Washington | 68 | |
| Utah | 65 | |
| Wisconsin | 53 | |
| Virginia | 49 | |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | |
| Arizona | 42 | |
| Oregon | 40 | |
| Indiana | 39 | |
| New York | 37 | |
| Ohio | 37 | |
| Minnesota | 34 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
13 of these are people and 1,382 are organisations, so 99% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2019, and 590 registered in the last five years, 42% 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.
- COLORADO SPRINGS, CO17
- INDIANAPOLIS, IN14
- HOUSTON, TX13
- PHOENIX, AZ11
- PORTLAND, OR9
- GREENVILLE, SC9
- SAN ANTONIO, TX9
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT9
- SAN DIEGO, CA8
- ANCHORAGE, AK8
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Birthing Clinic/Center 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Midwife | 61 | 4.4% |
| Advanced Practice Midwife | 36 | 2.6% |
| Non-Surgical Family Planning Clinic/Center | 23 | 1.6% |
| Clinic/Center | 19 | 1.4% |
| Lactation Consultant (Non-RN) | 8 | 0.6% |
| Home Health Agency | 8 | 0.6% |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician | 7 | 0.5% |
| Doula | 6 | 0.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Clinic/Center.
- Pain Clinic/Center1,448
- Student Health Clinic/Center1,336
- Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation Facility (CORF)1,297
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Clinic/Center1,516
- VA Clinic/Center1,518
- Mobile Radiology Clinic/Center1,213
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.