Independent Duty Corpsman
3,580 active US providers register Independent Duty Corpsman as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.04% of every provider in the registry, and the 224th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1710I1002X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Military Health Care Provider
- Specialization
- Independent Duty Corpsman
- Active providers
- 3,580
- States covered
- 43 of 51
What the code means
A Navy Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) is an active duty Sailor who has successfully completed one of the Navy's specific IDC training programs. IDCs are formally trained and educated to perform primary medical care and minor surgical services in a variety of health care and non-health care settings worldwide under indirect physician supervision. IDCs provide care to Department of Defense operational forces and other supporting forces such as contractors and foreign nationals.
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 | 1,407 | |
| North Carolina | 331 | |
| Virginia | 313 | |
| Connecticut | 200 | |
| Florida | 113 | |
| Washington | 83 | |
| Hawaii | 81 | |
| Texas | 68 | |
| Maryland | 55 | |
| Mississippi | 48 | |
| Georgia | 44 | |
| Illinois | 34 | |
| South Carolina | 28 | |
| Rhode Island | 22 | |
| Tennessee | 18 |
Showing the 15 largest of 43 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 3,565 people against 15 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 878 registered in the last five years, 25% 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.
- SAN DIEGO, CA1,021
- CAMP LEJEUNE, NC213
- GROTON, CT182
- CAMP PENDLETON, CA111
- VIRGINIA BEACH, VA107
- NORFOLK, VA84
- JACKSONVILLE, FL48
- PORTSMOUTH, VA44
- JACKSONVILLE, NC36
- OCEANSIDE, CA36
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Independent Duty Corpsman 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 53 | 1.5% |
| Basic Emergency Medical Technician | 14 | 0.4% |
| Military Health Care Provider | 10 | 0.3% |
| Other Technician | 9 | 0.3% |
| Independent Duty Medical Technicians | 8 | 0.2% |
| Paramedic | 6 | 0.2% |
| Military Hospital | 3 | 0.1% |
| Health Information Technician | 2 | 0.1% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Military Health Care Provider.
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.