Naturopath
8,438 active US providers register Naturopath as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.09% of every provider in the registry, and the 149th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 175F00000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Naturopath
- Active providers
- 8,438
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
Diagnoses, treats, and cares for patients, using system of practice that bases treatment of physiological functions and abnormal conditions on natural laws governing human body: Utilizes physiological, psychological, and mechanical methods, such as air, water, light, heat, earth, phototherapy, food and herb therapy, psychotherapy, electrotherapy, physiotherapy, minor and orificial surgery, mechanotherapy, naturopathic corrections and manipulation, and natural methods or modalities, together with natural medicines, natural processed foods, and herbs and nature's remedies. Excludes major surgery, therapeutic use of x ray and radium, and use of drugs, except those assimilable substances containing elements or compounds which are components of body tissues and are physiologically compatible to body processes for maintenance of life.
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 | 1,834 | |
| Oregon | 1,508 | |
| Arizona | 1,203 | |
| California | 1,013 | |
| Connecticut | 460 | |
| Colorado | 162 | |
| Vermont | 155 | |
| Texas | 114 | |
| Hawaii | 113 | |
| Montana | 109 | |
| New Hampshire | 105 | |
| North Carolina | 88 | |
| Michigan | 85 | |
| Minnesota | 80 | |
| Florida | 77 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
7,314 of these are people and 1,124 are organisations, so 13% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2014, and 1,726 registered in the last five years, 20% 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, OR849
- SEATTLE, WA605
- SCOTTSDALE, AZ272
- TEMPE, AZ192
- PHOENIX, AZ191
- MESA, AZ142
- SAN DIEGO, CA127
- BELLEVUE, WA116
- CHANDLER, AZ79
- KIRKLAND, WA77
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Naturopath 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acupuncturist | 839 | 9.9% |
| Massage Therapist | 141 | 1.7% |
| Chiropractor | 91 | 1.1% |
| Homeopath | 81 | 1.0% |
| Nutritionist | 67 | 0.8% |
| Midwife | 64 | 0.8% |
| Health Educator | 58 | 0.7% |
| Health & Wellness Coach | 56 | 0.7% |
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.