Personal Care Attendant
99,907 active US providers register Personal Care Attendant as their primary taxonomy. That is 1.1% of every provider in the registry, and the 24th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 3747P1801X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Related Providers
- Classification
- Technician
- Specialization
- Personal Care Attendant
- Active providers
- 99,907
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An individual who provides assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, activities of daily living as specified in the plan of care. Services which are incidental to the care furnished, or essential to the health and welfare of the individual may also be provided. Personal care providers must meet state defined training and certification standards
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 31,841 | |
| West Virginia | 30,497 | |
| Nebraska | 13,187 | |
| District of Columbia | 5,603 | |
| Ohio | 5,383 | |
| Michigan | 1,990 | |
| Texas | 1,965 | |
| North Dakota | 1,839 | |
| Louisiana | 1,074 | |
| Florida | 924 | |
| Maryland | 832 | |
| Alaska | 647 | |
| Virginia | 485 | |
| Minnesota | 425 | |
| Oregon | 298 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
96,570 of these are people and 3,337 are organisations, so 3% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2023, and 71,209 registered in the last five years, 71% 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.
- LAS VEGAS, NV26,083
- WASHINGTON, DC5,565
- OMAHA, NE4,858
- BARBOURSVILLE, WV3,323
- CHARLESTON, WV2,776
- LINCOLN, NE2,490
- HUNTINGTON, WV1,949
- RENO, NV1,683
- HENDERSON, NV1,670
- SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV1,652
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Personal Care Attendant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Adult Companion | 7,930 | 7.9% |
| Homemaker | 7,371 | 7.4% |
| Chore Provider | 6,965 | 7.0% |
| Attendant Care Provider | 6,374 | 6.4% |
| Home Health Aide | 1,237 | 1.2% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 789 | 0.8% |
| Respite Care | 779 | 0.8% |
| Home Health Agency | 734 | 0.7% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Technician.
- Attendant Care Provider9,793
- Technician2,749
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.