Rural Health Clinic/Center
8,708 active US providers register Rural Health Clinic/Center as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.09% of every provider in the registry, and the 147th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 261QR1300X
- Grouping
- Ambulatory Health Care Facilities
- Classification
- Clinic/Center
- Specialization
- Rural Health
- Active providers
- 8,708
- States covered
- 48 of 51
What the code means
Definition to come...
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 | 697 | |
| Missouri | 600 | |
| Kentucky | 580 | |
| Illinois | 446 | |
| Mississippi | 397 | |
| Michigan | 397 | |
| California | 380 | |
| Louisiana | 357 | |
| Tennessee | 336 | |
| Iowa | 333 | |
| Kansas | 296 | |
| South Carolina | 266 | |
| Arkansas | 245 | |
| Oklahoma | 225 | |
| Alabama | 215 |
Showing the 15 largest of 48 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
20 of these are people and 8,688 are organisations, so 100% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 1,880 registered in the last five years, 22% 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.
- POPLAR BLUFF, MO25
- KENNETT, MO18
- VILLE PLATTE, LA17
- LONDON, KY15
- MULLINS, SC15
- HOPKINSVILLE, KY15
- JACKSONVILLE, IL15
- MADISONVILLE, KY15
- CORBIN, KY14
- DINUBA, CA13
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Rural Health Clinic/Center 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Family Medicine Physician | 1,335 | 15.3% |
| Family Nurse Practitioner | 309 | 3.5% |
| Internal Medicine Physician | 269 | 3.1% |
| Pediatrics Physician | 242 | 2.8% |
| Nurse Practitioner | 242 | 2.8% |
| Clinic/Center | 225 | 2.6% |
| Primary Care Clinic/Center | 211 | 2.4% |
| Physician Assistant | 190 | 2.2% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Clinic/Center.
- Health Service Clinic/Center9,213
- Adult Day Care Clinic/Center7,533
- Substance Use Disorder Rehabilitation Clinic/Center7,366
- Adult Mental Health Clinic/Center10,264
- Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center11,155
- Medical Specialty Clinic/Center6,242
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.