Midwife
6,865 active US providers register Midwife as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.07% of every provider in the registry, and the 164th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 176B00000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Midwife
- Active providers
- 6,865
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A Midwife is a trained professional with special expertise in supporting women to maintain a healthy pregnancy birth, offering expert individualized care, education, counseling, and support to a woman and her newborn throughout the childbearing cycle. A Midwife is a skilled and independent practitioner who has undergone formalized training. Midwives are not required to be nurses and may be trained via multiple routes of education (apprenticeship, workshop, formal classes, or programs, etc., usually a combination). The educational background requirements and licensing requirements vary by state. The Midwife may or may not be certified by a state or national organization.
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 | 846 | |
| Texas | 566 | |
| New York | 538 | |
| Florida | 450 | |
| Washington | 368 | |
| Oregon | 243 | |
| Pennsylvania | 235 | |
| Virginia | 205 | |
| Colorado | 191 | |
| Arizona | 175 | |
| Minnesota | 170 | |
| Michigan | 157 | |
| Utah | 156 | |
| Massachusetts | 156 | |
| Ohio | 151 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
6,051 of these are people and 814 are organisations, so 12% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 2,026 registered in the last five years, 30% 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.
- BROOKLYN, NY117
- PORTLAND, OR80
- NEW YORK, NY72
- BRONX, NY57
- AUSTIN, TX57
- SEATTLE, WA56
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM52
- SAN DIEGO, CA43
- PHOENIX, AZ43
- HOUSTON, TX40
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is 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 | 356 | 5.2% |
| Registered Nurse | 205 | 3.0% |
| Advanced Practice Midwife | 200 | 2.9% |
| Lactation Consultant (Non-RN) | 145 | 2.1% |
| Women's Health Nurse Practitioner | 77 | 1.1% |
| Lay Midwife | 58 | 0.8% |
| Health Educator | 45 | 0.7% |
| Birthing Clinic/Center | 37 | 0.5% |
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.