Doula
19,836 active US providers register Doula as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 79th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 374J00000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Related Providers
- Classification
- Doula
- Active providers
- 19,836
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Doulas work in a variety of settings and have been trained to provide physical, emotional, and informational support to a mother before, during, and just after birth and/or provide emotional and practical support to a mother during the postpartum period.
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 | 3,935 | |
| Michigan | 1,386 | |
| New York | 1,342 | |
| Florida | 1,160 | |
| Washington | 1,081 | |
| Massachusetts | 954 | |
| Oregon | 891 | |
| New Jersey | 757 | |
| Texas | 693 | |
| Colorado | 590 | |
| Virginia | 589 | |
| Pennsylvania | 558 | |
| Illinois | 510 | |
| Maryland | 507 | |
| North Carolina | 481 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
18,080 of these are people and 1,756 are organisations, so 9% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2024, and 15,678 registered in the last five years, 79% 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.
- PORTLAND, OR333
- BROOKLYN, NY307
- LOS ANGELES, CA251
- DETROIT, MI245
- SEATTLE, WA236
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA208
- CHICAGO, IL177
- SAN DIEGO, CA170
- OAKLAND, CA161
- RICHMOND, VA152
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Doula 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lactation Consultant (Non-RN) | 651 | 3.3% |
| Health Educator | 344 | 1.7% |
| Community Health Worker | 311 | 1.6% |
| Health & Wellness Coach | 161 | 0.8% |
| Massage Therapist | 140 | 0.7% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 87 | 0.4% |
| Specialist | 71 | 0.4% |
| Registered Nurse | 68 | 0.3% |
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.