Skilled Nursing Facility
34,693 active US providers register Skilled Nursing Facility as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.4% of every provider in the registry, and the 56th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 314000000X
- Grouping
- Nursing & Custodial Care Facilities
- Classification
- Skilled Nursing Facility
- Active providers
- 34,693
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
(1) A skilled nursing facility is a facility or distinct part of an institution whose primary function is to provide medical, continuous nursing, and other health and social services to patients who are not in an acute phase of illness requiring services in a hospital, but who require primary restorative or skilled nursing services on an inpatient basis above the level of intermediate or custodial care in order to reach a degree of body functioning to permit self care in essential daily living. It meets any licensing or certification standards et forth by the jurisdiction where it is located. A skilled nursing facility may be a freestanding facility or part of a hospital that has been certified by Medicare to admit patients requiring subacute care and rehabilitation; (2) Provides non-acute medical and skilled nursing care services, therapy and social services under the supervision of a licensed registered nurse on a 24-hour basis.
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 | 3,280 | |
| California | 2,881 | |
| Ohio | 2,207 | |
| Florida | 1,933 | |
| Pennsylvania | 1,763 | |
| Illinois | 1,750 | |
| New York | 1,169 | |
| Missouri | 1,140 | |
| Massachusetts | 1,001 | |
| North Carolina | 930 | |
| New Jersey | 911 | |
| Wisconsin | 895 | |
| Indiana | 843 | |
| Michigan | 829 | |
| Georgia | 797 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
974 of these are people and 33,719 are organisations, so 97% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2009, and 5,741 registered in the last five years, 17% 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.
- CHICAGO, IL209
- CINCINNATI, OH179
- HOUSTON, TX171
- LOS ANGELES, CA167
- SAN ANTONIO, TX158
- PHILADELPHIA, PA125
- BALTIMORE, MD116
- SAINT LOUIS, MO110
- LOUISVILLE, KY98
- BROOKLYN, NY96
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Skilled Nursing Facility 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing Facility/Intermediate Care Facility | 877 | 2.5% |
| Assisted Living Facility | 876 | 2.5% |
| Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition Supplies (DME) | 398 | 1.1% |
| Nursing Facility Supplies (DME) | 393 | 1.1% |
| Respite Care | 361 | 1.0% |
| Speech-Language Pathologist | 131 | 0.4% |
| Occupational Therapist | 123 | 0.4% |
| Alzheimer Center (Dementia Center) | 108 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Skilled Nursing Facility.
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.