Lay Midwife
495 active US providers register Lay Midwife as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 494th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 175M00000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Midwife, Lay
- Active providers
- 495
- States covered
- 44 of 51
What the code means
A person qualified by experience and limited specialized training to provide obstetric and neo-natal care in the management of women having normal pregnancy, labor and childbirth. The lay midwife is licensed in some states.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 49 | |
| Pennsylvania | 46 | |
| Utah | 38 | |
| Oregon | 32 | |
| Texas | 26 | |
| California | 24 | |
| Colorado | 23 | |
| Florida | 20 | |
| New Mexico | 20 | |
| Minnesota | 15 | |
| Georgia | 13 | |
| Nevada | 12 | |
| Arkansas | 11 | |
| Oklahoma | 11 | |
| Washington | 10 |
Showing the 15 largest of 44 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
457 of these are people and 38 are organisations, so 8% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 167 registered in the last five years, 34% 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.
- LAS VEGAS, NV9
- PORTLAND, OR7
- SANTA FE, NM6
- COLORADO SPRINGS, CO5
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM5
- WASILLA, AK5
- EUGENE, OR4
- BOZEMAN, MT4
- MINNEAPOLIS, MN4
- SEATTLE, WA3
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Lay Midwife 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doula | 25 | 5.1% |
| Midwife | 17 | 3.4% |
| Lactation Consultant (Non-RN) | 12 | 2.4% |
| Massage Therapist | 5 | 1.0% |
| Health Educator | 4 | 0.8% |
| Naturopath | 2 | 0.4% |
| Homeopath | 2 | 0.4% |
| Community Health Worker | 2 | 0.4% |
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.