Pharmacy Technician
12,172 active US providers register Pharmacy Technician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.1% of every provider in the registry, and the 118th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 183700000X
- Grouping
- Pharmacy Service Providers
- Classification
- Pharmacy Technician
- Active providers
- 12,172
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
A person who works under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist and performs many pharmacy-related functions that do not require the professional judgment of a pharmacist.
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 | 2,452 | |
| California | 887 | |
| Pennsylvania | 626 | |
| Washington | 600 | |
| Michigan | 481 | |
| Florida | 447 | |
| Ohio | 416 | |
| Virginia | 389 | |
| New York | 299 | |
| Illinois | 265 | |
| Tennessee | 204 | |
| Georgia | 195 | |
| North Carolina | 185 | |
| Massachusetts | 179 | |
| Maryland | 177 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 12,096 people against 76 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2021, and 6,264 registered in the last five years, 51% 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.
- SAN ANTONIO, TX490
- PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA312
- HOUSTON, TX229
- AUSTIN, TX158
- SEATTLE, WA135
- OMAHA, NE111
- SAN DIEGO, CA67
- CHICAGO, IL61
- LAREDO, TX55
- VIRGINIA BEACH, VA50
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Pharmacy Technician 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pharmacist | 36 | 0.3% |
| Health Educator | 26 | 0.2% |
| Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 17 | 0.1% |
| Community Health Worker | 13 | 0.1% |
| Basic Emergency Medical Technician | 12 | 0.1% |
| Other Technician | 10 | 0.1% |
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 8 | 0.1% |
| Home Health Aide | 7 | 0.1% |
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.