Health Information Specialist/Technologist
363 active US providers register Health Information Specialist/Technologist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.00% of every provider in the registry, and the 539th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 246Y00000X
- Grouping
- Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
- Classification
- Specialist/Technologist, Health Information
- Active providers
- 363
- States covered
- 42 of 51
What the code means
An individual with a high school diploma, on-the-job experience and coding education from seminars or college classes who passes a national certification examination in either inpatient and outpatient facility services coding, or physician services coding.
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 | 58 | |
| Florida | 37 | |
| New York | 21 | |
| Texas | 19 | |
| Georgia | 18 | |
| Illinois | 17 | |
| Ohio | 15 | |
| Oregon | 15 | |
| Michigan | 12 | |
| Colorado | 11 | |
| Tennessee | 10 | |
| Arizona | 9 | |
| Washington | 8 | |
| New Jersey | 8 | |
| District of Columbia | 8 |
Showing the 15 largest of 42 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
252 of these are people and 111 are organisations, so 31% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2019, and 158 registered in the last five years, 44% 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.
- WASHINGTON, DC8
- MEDFORD, OR7
- HOUSTON, TX6
- MIAMI, FL6
- PARAGOULD, AR5
- BROOKLYN, NY5
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA4
- MINNEAPOLIS, MN4
- MATTOON, IL4
- PHOENIX, AZ4
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Health Information Specialist/Technologist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Health Information Technician | 6 | 1.7% |
| Health Educator | 3 | 0.8% |
| Other Specialist/Technologist | 3 | 0.8% |
| Research Study Specialist | 2 | 0.6% |
| Research Study Abstracter/Coder | 2 | 0.6% |
| Home Health Agency | 2 | 0.6% |
| Physician Office Based Coding Specialist | 2 | 0.6% |
| Counselor | 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.