Other Specialist/Technologist
2,425 active US providers register Other Specialist/Technologist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 262nd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 246Z00000X
- Grouping
- Technologists, Technicians & Other Technical Service Providers
- Classification
- Specialist/Technologist, Other
- Active providers
- 2,425
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
General classification identifying individuals trained on specific equipment and technical procedures in one of a collection of miscellaneous healthcare disciplines.
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 | 250 | |
| California | 246 | |
| Michigan | 232 | |
| Florida | 157 | |
| New York | 137 | |
| Illinois | 83 | |
| Georgia | 81 | |
| Pennsylvania | 79 | |
| North Carolina | 72 | |
| Oregon | 68 | |
| Tennessee | 60 | |
| Washington | 59 | |
| Maryland | 58 | |
| Colorado | 56 | |
| Arizona | 53 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
2,000 of these are people and 425 are organisations, so 18% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2019, and 1,074 registered in the last five years, 44% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
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.
- LIVONIA, MI82
- PLYMOUTH, MI66
- HOUSTON, TX61
- NEW YORK, NY24
- SAN DIEGO, CA23
- DALLAS, TX22
- FORT WORTH, TX21
- FORT RUCKER, AL19
- SALT LAKE CITY, UT18
- PORTLAND, OR18
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Other Specialist/Technologist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Specialist | 18 | 0.7% |
| Other Technician | 14 | 0.6% |
| Health Educator | 13 | 0.5% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 12 | 0.5% |
| Athletic Trainer | 11 | 0.5% |
| Audiologist | 11 | 0.5% |
| Electroneurodiagnostic Specialist/Technologist | 8 | 0.3% |
| Community Health Worker | 8 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Specialist/Technologist, Other.
- Surgical Technologist1,956
- Medical Art Specialist/Technologist262
- Electroneurodiagnostic Specialist/Technologist4,801
- Surgical Assistant5,268
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.