Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
17,522 active US providers register Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 88th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 261QF0400X
- Grouping
- Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
- Classification
- Clinic/Center
- Specialization
- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)
- Active providers
- 17,522
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Definition to come...
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 | 2,641 | |
| Texas | 906 | |
| Florida | 854 | |
| Illinois | 760 | |
| Washington | 751 | |
| North Carolina | 738 | |
| Ohio | 680 | |
| Michigan | 643 | |
| Kentucky | 585 | |
| Louisiana | 572 | |
| Missouri | 511 | |
| Pennsylvania | 507 | |
| West Virginia | 464 | |
| New York | 462 | |
| Georgia | 462 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
38 of these are people and 17,484 are organisations, so 100% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2015, and 5,011 registered in the last five years, 29% 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.
- CHICAGO, IL249
- LOS ANGELES, CA212
- SEATTLE, WA149
- SAN DIEGO, CA131
- HOUSTON, TX125
- SAN JOSE, CA108
- PHILADELPHIA, PA105
- WASHINGTON, DC99
- DENVER, CO98
- NEW ORLEANS, LA98
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Family Medicine Physician | 1,210 | 6.9% |
| Dental Clinic/Center | 440 | 2.5% |
| Pediatrics Physician | 426 | 2.4% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 384 | 2.2% |
| Mental Health Clinic/Center (Including Community Mental Health Center) | 383 | 2.2% |
| Community Health Clinic/Center | 367 | 2.1% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 355 | 2.0% |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician | 321 | 1.8% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Clinic/Center.
- Primary Care Clinic/Center17,187
- Physical Therapy Clinic/Center20,621
- Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center13,844
- Urgent Care Clinic/Center11,540
- End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Clinic/Center11,301
- Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center11,155
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.