Massage Therapist
76,685 active US providers register Massage Therapist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.8% of every provider in the registry, and the 33rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 225700000X
- Grouping
- Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
- Classification
- Massage Therapist
- Active providers
- 76,685
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An individual trained in the manipulation of tissues (as by rubbing, stroking, kneading, or tapping) with the hand or an instrument for remedial or hygienic purposes.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | 13,883 | |
| Florida | 7,564 | |
| Oregon | 6,599 | |
| California | 5,322 | |
| New York | 4,249 | |
| Colorado | 3,418 | |
| Texas | 3,366 | |
| Michigan | 2,104 | |
| Ohio | 2,064 | |
| North Carolina | 1,721 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1,570 | |
| Illinois | 1,497 | |
| Hawaii | 1,497 | |
| Georgia | 1,429 | |
| Minnesota | 1,345 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
71,186 of these are people and 5,499 are organisations, so 7% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2018, and 29,543 registered in the last five years, 39% 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.
- PORTLAND, OR2,116
- SEATTLE, WA2,023
- VANCOUVER, WA826
- SPOKANE, WA708
- MIAMI, FL638
- EUGENE, OR625
- ANCHORAGE, AK514
- COLORADO SPRINGS, CO513
- TACOMA, WA502
- BELLEVUE, WA488
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Massage Therapist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Reflexologist | 346 | 0.5% |
| Acupuncturist | 253 | 0.3% |
| Specialist | 194 | 0.3% |
| Physical Therapy Assistant | 177 | 0.2% |
| Doula | 174 | 0.2% |
| Mechanotherapist | 166 | 0.2% |
| Health & Wellness Coach | 155 | 0.2% |
| Health Educator | 117 | 0.2% |
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.