Community/Behavioral Health Agency
69,498 active US providers register Community/Behavioral Health Agency as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.7% of every provider in the registry, and the 38th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 251S00000X
- Grouping
- Agencies
- Classification
- Community/Behavioral Health
- Active providers
- 69,498
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A private or public agency usually under local government jurisdiction, responsible for assuring the delivery of community based mental health, intellectual disabilities, substance abuse and/or behavioral health services to individuals with those disabilities. Services may range from companion care, respite, transportation, community integration, crisis intervention and stabilization, supported employment, day support, prevocational services, residential support, therapeutic and supportive consultation, environmental modifications, intensive in-home therapy and day treatment, in addition to traditional mental health and behavioral treatment.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 8,176 | |
| California | 7,743 | |
| Florida | 4,070 | |
| Ohio | 3,874 | |
| Maryland | 2,912 | |
| New Jersey | 2,829 | |
| Pennsylvania | 2,671 | |
| Virginia | 2,638 | |
| Georgia | 2,478 | |
| Arizona | 2,226 | |
| Nevada | 2,152 | |
| Texas | 2,104 | |
| New York | 1,750 | |
| Michigan | 1,656 | |
| Illinois | 1,543 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
6,225 of these are people and 63,273 are organisations, so 91% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 20,553 registered in the last five years, 30% 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.
- LAS VEGAS, NV1,419
- CHARLOTTE, NC900
- BALTIMORE, MD877
- PHOENIX, AZ742
- COLUMBUS, OH680
- MIAMI, FL652
- RALEIGH, NC595
- LOS ANGELES, CA536
- CHICAGO, IL464
- PHILADELPHIA, PA463
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Community/Behavioral Health Agency 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Case Management Agency | 3,404 | 4.9% |
| Mental Health Counselor | 1,832 | 2.6% |
| Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) | 1,605 | 2.3% |
| Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency | 1,211 | 1.7% |
| Clinical Social Worker | 1,079 | 1.6% |
| Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor | 1,018 | 1.5% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 920 | 1.3% |
| Adult Mental Health Clinic/Center | 810 | 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.