Personal Emergency Response Attendant
690 active US providers register Personal Emergency Response Attendant as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 430th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 146D00000X
- Grouping
- Emergency Medical Service Providers
- Classification
- Personal Emergency Response Attendant
- Active providers
- 690
- States covered
- 46 of 51
What the code means
Individuals that are specially trained to assist patients living at home with urgent/emergent situations. These individuals must be able to perform CPR and basic first aid and have sufficient counseling skills to allay fears and assist in working through processes necessary to resolve the crisis. Functions may include transportation to various facilities and businesses, contacting agencies to initiate remediation service or providing reassurance.
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 | 75 | |
| Ohio | 56 | |
| New York | 38 | |
| Texas | 28 | |
| Arizona | 25 | |
| Nevada | 25 | |
| Florida | 22 | |
| New Jersey | 21 | |
| Massachusetts | 17 | |
| Michigan | 17 | |
| Georgia | 15 | |
| Virginia | 15 | |
| Indiana | 15 | |
| Tennessee | 15 | |
| Nebraska | 15 |
Showing the 15 largest of 46 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
529 of these are people and 161 are organisations, so 23% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 107 registered in the last five years, 16% 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.
- SCOTTSDALE, AZ18
- LAS VEGAS, NV15
- WASHINGTON, DC11
- HOUSTON, TX9
- CLEVELAND, OH8
- VENTURA, CA7
- BROOKLYN, NY6
- MAYFIELD HTS, OH6
- JOHNSON CITY, TN6
- BRONX, NY6
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Personal Emergency Response 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Medicine Physician | 22 | 3.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 6 | 0.9% |
| Adult Companion | 6 | 0.9% |
| Physician Assistant | 5 | 0.7% |
| Personal Care Attendant | 5 | 0.7% |
| Family Medicine Physician | 4 | 0.6% |
| Chore Provider | 4 | 0.6% |
| Specialist | 3 | 0.4% |
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.