Supports Brokerage Agency
928 active US providers register Supports Brokerage Agency as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 397th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 251X00000X
- Grouping
- Agencies
- Classification
- Supports Brokerage
- Active providers
- 928
- States covered
- 46 of 51
What the code means
A provider of service/function that assists participating individuals to make informed decisions about what will work best for them is consistent with their needs and reflects their individual circumstances. Serving as the agent of the individual, the service is available to assist in identifying immediate and long-term needs, developing options to meet those needs and accessing identified supports and services and may include assistance with recruiting, screening, hiring, and training in-home support providers. A family or person-centered planning approach is used. Supports Brokerage offers practical skills training to enable families and individuals to remain independent. Examples of skills training include providing information on recruiting and hiring personal care workers, managing personal care workers and providing information on effective communication and problem solving. The service/function provides sufficient information to assure that individuals understand the responsibilities involved with self-direction and assist in the development of an effective back-up and emergency plan. Plans may elect to fulfill the requirement of this service/function using a self-directed case manager or creating a distinct service. The Supports Brokerage documents the need for assistive services, planning for and documenting the use of excess funds and locating and maintaining 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 |
|---|---|---|
| California | 186 | |
| Texas | 102 | |
| Ohio | 82 | |
| New Jersey | 74 | |
| Florida | 55 | |
| Kentucky | 45 | |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | |
| New York | 30 | |
| Michigan | 26 | |
| North Carolina | 22 | |
| Minnesota | 22 | |
| Alaska | 20 | |
| Maryland | 19 | |
| Georgia | 14 | |
| Tennessee | 14 |
Showing the 15 largest of 46 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
141 of these are people and 787 are organisations, so 85% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2018, and 397 registered in the last five years, 43% 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.
- SACRAMENTO, CA16
- HOUSTON, TX15
- ANCHORAGE, AK12
- DALLAS, TX10
- BROOKLYN, NY9
- CLEVELAND, OH8
- MIAMI, FL7
- WASHINGTON, DC7
- PHILADELPHIA, PA7
- SAN FRANCISCO, CA7
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Supports Brokerage Agency 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Case Management Agency | 90 | 9.7% |
| Developmentally Disabled Services Day Training Agency | 47 | 5.1% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 44 | 4.7% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 38 | 4.1% |
| Community/Behavioral Health Agency | 32 | 3.4% |
| Respite Care | 30 | 3.2% |
| Home Health Agency | 25 | 2.7% |
| Personal Care Attendant | 18 | 1.9% |
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.