Prevention Professional
840 active US providers register Prevention Professional as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 410th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 405300000X
- Grouping
- Other Service Providers
- Classification
- Prevention Professional
- Active providers
- 840
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
Prevention Professionals work in programs aimed to address specific patient needs, such as suicide prevention, violence prevention, alcohol avoidance, drug avoidance, and tobacco prevention. The goal of the program is to reduce the risk of relapse, injury, or re-injury of the patient. Prevention Professionals work in a variety of settings and provide appropriate case management, mediation, referral, and mentorship services. Individuals complete prevention professionals training for the population of patients with whom they work.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 195 | |
| California | 78 | |
| New York | 58 | |
| Florida | 46 | |
| North Carolina | 33 | |
| Oregon | 29 | |
| Michigan | 29 | |
| Georgia | 22 | |
| Maryland | 22 | |
| Texas | 21 | |
| New Jersey | 19 | |
| Missouri | 18 | |
| Arizona | 17 | |
| Illinois | 16 | |
| Washington | 15 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
622 of these are people and 218 are organisations, so 26% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2020, and 403 registered in the last five years, 48% 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.
- AKRON, OH56
- CINCINNATI, OH20
- LORAIN, OH15
- PENDLETON, OR14
- NEW YORK, NY11
- BROOKLYN, NY10
- CHARLOTTE, NC9
- MENTOR, OH9
- BALTIMORE, MD8
- LOS ANGELES, CA8
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Prevention Professional 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor | 15 | 1.8% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 15 | 1.8% |
| Peer Specialist | 14 | 1.7% |
| Mental Health Counselor | 12 | 1.4% |
| Health Educator | 6 | 0.7% |
| Community Health Worker | 6 | 0.7% |
| Community/Behavioral Health Agency | 6 | 0.7% |
| Public Health or Welfare Agency | 6 | 0.7% |
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.