Nursing Care Agency
6,574 active US providers register Nursing Care Agency as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.07% of every provider in the registry, and the 166th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 251J00000X
- Grouping
- Agencies
- Classification
- Nursing Care
- Active providers
- 6,574
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A Nursing Care Agency is an entity that provides skilled nursing care through the services of a Registered Nurse (RN) or a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN), by employees, contracted individuals, or via a registry, in a variety of settings. The agency may engage in providing private duty nursing and/or staffing services.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 660 | |
| Florida | 637 | |
| New York | 510 | |
| Maryland | 455 | |
| Illinois | 364 | |
| Ohio | 360 | |
| North Carolina | 335 | |
| Texas | 293 | |
| California | 290 | |
| Pennsylvania | 203 | |
| Michigan | 200 | |
| Minnesota | 167 | |
| New Jersey | 163 | |
| Virginia | 146 | |
| Massachusetts | 143 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,017 of these are people and 5,557 are organisations, so 85% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2017, and 2,413 registered in the last five years, 37% 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.
- ATLANTA, GA107
- BROOKLYN, NY83
- BALTIMORE, MD71
- CHICAGO, IL64
- MIAMI, FL59
- HOUSTON, TX54
- TINLEY PARK, IL54
- CHARLOTTE, NC42
- CINCINNATI, OH40
- RALEIGH, NC40
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Nursing Care Agency 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Home Health Agency | 860 | 13.1% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 649 | 9.9% |
| Case Management Agency | 148 | 2.3% |
| Respite Care | 138 | 2.1% |
| Home Infusion Agency | 124 | 1.9% |
| Community/Behavioral Health Agency | 117 | 1.8% |
| Home Health Aide | 75 | 1.1% |
| Community Based Hospice Care Agency | 73 | 1.1% |
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.