Medicare Defined Swing Bed Hospital Unit
1,875 active US providers register Medicare Defined Swing Bed Hospital Unit as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 303rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 275N00000X
- Grouping
- Hospital Units
- Classification
- Medicare Defined Swing Bed Unit
- Active providers
- 1,875
- States covered
- 47 of 51
What the code means
A unit of a hospital that has a Medicare provider agreement and has been granted approval from HCFA to provide post-hospital extended care services and be reimbursed as a swing-bed unit.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | 121 | |
| Kansas | 102 | |
| Oklahoma | 88 | |
| Iowa | 80 | |
| Mississippi | 77 | |
| Georgia | 76 | |
| Tennessee | 76 | |
| Minnesota | 65 | |
| Kentucky | 61 | |
| Missouri | 61 | |
| Nebraska | 61 | |
| Arkansas | 57 | |
| Illinois | 55 | |
| Wisconsin | 51 | |
| Pennsylvania | 49 |
Showing the 15 largest of 47 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
9 of these are people and 1,866 are organisations, so 100% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 133 registered in the last five years, 7% of the current population.
That is a slow-growing code, which usually means an established field replacing retirements rather than expanding.
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.
- KNOX, IN5
- ERIN, TN5
- HIGHLANDS, NC4
- SAINT LOUIS, MO4
- STUART, VA4
- ADA, OK4
- MILLEN, GA4
- BIG SPRING, TX3
- PAYSON, AZ3
- MERIDIAN, MS3
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Medicare Defined Swing Bed Hospital Unit 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Access Hospital | 127 | 6.8% |
| General Acute Care Hospital | 19 | 1.0% |
| Skilled Nursing Facility | 10 | 0.5% |
| Rural Acute Care Hospital | 8 | 0.4% |
| Nursing Facility/Intermediate Care Facility | 4 | 0.2% |
| Long Term Care Hospital | 4 | 0.2% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 2 | 0.1% |
| Clinical Medical Laboratory | 2 | 0.1% |
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.