Paramedic
1,772 active US providers register Paramedic as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 310th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 146L00000X
- Grouping
- Emergency Medical Service Providers
- Classification
- Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic
- Active providers
- 1,772
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
An EMT, Paramedic is an individual trained and certified to perform advanced life support (ALS) in medical emergencies based on individual state boards.
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 | 88 | |
| Texas | 79 | |
| Florida | 71 | |
| Alabama | 59 | |
| Georgia | 57 | |
| North Carolina | 54 | |
| Colorado | 51 | |
| Ohio | 44 | |
| Pennsylvania | 43 | |
| Michigan | 43 | |
| Nevada | 40 | |
| New York | 39 | |
| Washington | 36 | |
| Maryland | 33 | |
| New Mexico | 31 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
1,626 of these are people and 146 are organisations, so 8% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 707 registered in the last five years, 40% 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.
- FORT RUCKER, AL37
- ALBUQUERQUE, NM20
- FORT STEWART, GA12
- PONTIAC, MI12
- RENO, NV11
- HOUSTON, TX9
- BUELLTON, CA8
- FORT BRAGG, NC8
- DENVER, CO8
- SAN ANTONIO, TX8
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Paramedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Basic Emergency Medical Technician | 38 | 2.1% |
| Intermediate Emergency Medical Technician | 15 | 0.8% |
| Community Health Worker | 10 | 0.6% |
| Health Educator | 9 | 0.5% |
| Athletic Trainer | 6 | 0.3% |
| Community Paramedic | 6 | 0.3% |
| Land Ambulance | 5 | 0.3% |
| Emergency Medical Services (Emergency Medicine) Physician | 5 | 0.3% |
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.