General Acute Care Hospital
15,019 active US providers register General Acute Care Hospital as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 100th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 282N00000X
- Grouping
- Hospitals
- Classification
- General Acute Care Hospital
- Active providers
- 15,019
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An acute general hospital is an institution whose primary function is to provide inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and non-surgical, to a wide population group. The hospital treats patients in an acute phase of illness or injury, characterized by a single episode or a fairly short duration, from which the patient returns to his or her normal or previous level of activity.
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 | 1,890 | |
| New York | 1,568 | |
| Texas | 1,241 | |
| Pennsylvania | 750 | |
| Florida | 632 | |
| Illinois | 627 | |
| Ohio | 483 | |
| New Jersey | 433 | |
| Michigan | 433 | |
| Massachusetts | 418 | |
| Colorado | 387 | |
| North Carolina | 369 | |
| Georgia | 308 | |
| South Carolina | 299 | |
| Louisiana | 292 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,271 of these are people and 13,748 are organisations, so 92% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2008, and 1,020 registered in the last five years, 7% 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, NY369
- LOS ANGELES, CA255
- CHICAGO, IL248
- HOUSTON, TX237
- BRONX, NY225
- BROOKLYN, NY200
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA170
- BOSTON, MA151
- PHILADELPHIA, PA148
- BALTIMORE, MD139
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is General Acute Care 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center | 286 | 1.9% |
| Psychiatric Hospital Unit | 262 | 1.7% |
| Clinic/Center | 190 | 1.3% |
| Rehabilitation Hospital Unit | 127 | 0.8% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 126 | 0.8% |
| Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center | 107 | 0.7% |
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 102 | 0.7% |
| Clinical Medical Laboratory | 102 | 0.7% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under General Acute Care Hospital.
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.