Independent Duty Medical Technicians
1,525 active US providers register Independent Duty Medical Technicians as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 332nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 1710I1003X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Military Health Care Provider
- Specialization
- Independent Duty Medical Technicians
- Active providers
- 1,525
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
An Independent Duty Medical Technician (IDMT) is specially trained and educated to perform primary medical care, minor surgical services, and treatment of dental disorders for active duty military members in a variety of health care and non-health care settings worldwide under direct and indirect physician supervision. An IDMT may take medical histories, perform physical exams, order lab tests and x-rays, prescribe medications, and give immunizations. IDMTs work under the direct supervision of a physician preceptor when at home station and indirectly when assigned to a Mobile Aid Station, Mobile Medical Unit, remote site, or otherwise deployed specifically as an IDMT. An IDMT may be an experienced Aerospace Medical Service Technician who meets special task qualifications and is recommended for training by the Aerospace Medical Service Functional Manager at their Medical Treatment Facility. IDMTs maintain certification as Nationally Registered Emergency Medical Technicians and as Immunization Back-up Technicians.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Florida | 144 | |
| Texas | 141 | |
| California | 117 | |
| Georgia | 75 | |
| Nevada | 63 | |
| North Carolina | 49 | |
| Washington | 49 | |
| Alaska | 48 | |
| Virginia | 45 | |
| New Mexico | 45 | |
| Arizona | 39 | |
| Ohio | 38 | |
| Colorado | 36 | |
| South Carolina | 31 | |
| Maryland | 30 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 1,516 people against 9 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 358 registered in the last five years, 23% 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.
- HURLBURT FIELD, FL57
- SAN ANTONIO, TX53
- NELLIS AFB, NV44
- TRAVIS AFB, CA43
- MOODY AFB, GA35
- FAIRCHILD AFB, WA26
- EGLIN AFB, FL25
- CANNON AFB, NM20
- COLORADO SPRINGS, CO17
- JBER, AK16
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Independent Duty Medical Technicians 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paramedic | 26 | 1.7% |
| Basic Emergency Medical Technician | 7 | 0.5% |
| Independent Duty Corpsman | 5 | 0.3% |
| Other Technician | 2 | 0.1% |
| Technician | 2 | 0.1% |
| Intermediate Emergency Medical Technician | 1 | 0.1% |
| Clinical Social Worker | 1 | 0.1% |
| Driver | 1 | 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.