Rehabilitation Hospital Unit
1,783 active US providers register Rehabilitation Hospital Unit as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.02% of every provider in the registry, and the 309th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 273Y00000X
- Grouping
- Hospital Units
- Classification
- Rehabilitation Unit
- Active providers
- 1,783
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
In general, a distinct unit of a general acute care hospital that provides care encompassing a comprehensive array of restoration services for the disabled and all support services necessary to help patients attain their maximum functional capacity. Source: AHA Annual Survey p. A10 1996 AHA Guide. For Medicare, a distinct part of a general acute care hospital providing inpatient rehabilitation services that meets the following requirements. Rehabilitation Units have in effect a preadmission screening procedure under which each prospective patient's condition and medical history are reviewed to determine whether the patient is likely to benefit significantly from an intensive inpatient program or assessment; ensure that the patients receive close medical supervision and furnish, through the use of qualified personnel, rehabilitation nursing, physical therapy and occupational therapy, plus, as needed, speech therapy, social services or psychological services and orthotic and prosthetic services; have a plan of treatment for each inpatient that is established, reviewed, and revised as needed by a physician in consultation with other professional personnel who provide services to the patient; use a coordinated multidisciplinary team approach in the rehabilitation of each inpatient, as documented by periodic clinical entries made in the patient's medical record to note the patient's status in relationship to goal attainment, and that team conferences are held at least every two weeks to determine the appropriateness of treatment; have a director of rehabilitation who provides services to the unit and its inpatients for at least 20 hours a week, is a doctor of medicine or osteopathy, is licensed under State law to practice medicine or surgery, and has had, after completing a one-year hospital internship at least two years of training or experience in the medical management of inpatients requiring rehabilitation services.
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 | 158 | |
| California | 127 | |
| Florida | 121 | |
| Pennsylvania | 106 | |
| New York | 92 | |
| Ohio | 75 | |
| Michigan | 74 | |
| Illinois | 71 | |
| Louisiana | 64 | |
| Georgia | 62 | |
| South Carolina | 57 | |
| Indiana | 50 | |
| Kentucky | 49 | |
| Missouri | 45 | |
| Tennessee | 42 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
56 of these are people and 1,727 are organisations, so 97% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2007, and 159 registered in the last five years, 9% of the current population.
That is a slow-growing code, which usually means an established field replacing retirements rather than expanding.
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.
- LOUISVILLE, KY27
- CHICAGO, IL20
- MIAMI, FL19
- HOUSTON, TX17
- LOS ANGELES, CA13
- PHILADELPHIA, PA12
- LAS VEGAS, NV12
- BROOKLYN, NY12
- DALLAS, TX12
- NEW YORK, NY12
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Rehabilitation Hospital Unit 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Rehabilitation Clinic/Center | 37 | 2.1% |
| Physical Therapy Clinic/Center | 32 | 1.8% |
| General Acute Care Hospital | 21 | 1.2% |
| Rehabilitation Hospital | 14 | 0.8% |
| Occupational Therapist | 10 | 0.6% |
| Psychiatric Hospital Unit | 7 | 0.4% |
| Physical Therapist | 7 | 0.4% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 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.