Chronic Disease Hospital
323 active US providers register Chronic Disease Hospital as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.00% of every provider in the registry, and the 554th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 281P00000X
- Grouping
- Hospitals
- Classification
- Chronic Disease Hospital
- Active providers
- 323
- States covered
- 41 of 51
What the code means
(1) A hospital including a physical plant and personnel that provides multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment for diseases that have one or more of the following characteristics: is permanent; leaves residual disability; is caused by nonreversible pathological alteration; requires special training of the patient for rehabilitation; and/or may be expected to require a long period of supervision or care. In addition, patients require the safety, security, and shelter of these specialized inpatient or partial hospitalization settings. (2) A hospital that provides medical and skilled nursing services to patients with long-term illnesses who are not in an acute phase but who require an intensity of services not available in nursing homes.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 67 | |
| California | 30 | |
| Illinois | 18 | |
| Florida | 17 | |
| Texas | 17 | |
| New Jersey | 13 | |
| Maryland | 12 | |
| Ohio | 12 | |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | |
| Michigan | 9 | |
| Massachusetts | 8 | |
| Missouri | 6 | |
| Tennessee | 6 | |
| Georgia | 6 | |
| Arizona | 6 |
Showing the 15 largest of 41 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
44 of these are people and 279 are organisations, so 86% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2010, and 4 registered in the last five years, 1% 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.
- NEW YORK, NY18
- BROOKLYN, NY17
- BRONX, NY14
- CHICAGO, IL11
- BALTIMORE, MD7
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA6
- PHILADELPHIA, PA5
- HOUSTON, TX5
- PITTSBURGH, PA5
- MIAMI, FL4
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Chronic Disease Hospital 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 |
|---|---|---|
| General Acute Care Hospital | 14 | 4.3% |
| Long Term Care Hospital | 2 | 0.6% |
| Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center | 2 | 0.6% |
| Rehabilitation Hospital Unit | 2 | 0.6% |
| Skilled Nursing Facility | 2 | 0.6% |
| Psychiatry Physician | 2 | 0.6% |
| Children's Chronic Disease Hospital | 2 | 0.6% |
| Pharmacist | 2 | 0.6% |
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.