Technician
2,749 active US providers register Technician as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.03% of every provider in the registry, and the 255th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 374700000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Related Providers
- Classification
- Technician
- Active providers
- 2,749
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
(1) A person with specialized training in a narrow field of expertise whose occupation requires training and is skilled in specific technical processes and procedures. (2) An individual having special skill or practical knowledge in an area, such as operation and maintenance of equipment or performance of laboratory procedures involving biochemical analyses. Special technical qualifications are normally required, though an increasing number or technicians also possess university degrees in science, and occasionally doctorate degrees. The distinction between technician and technologist in the health care field is not always clear.
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 | 569 | |
| Michigan | 249 | |
| Washington | 186 | |
| Nebraska | 178 | |
| Missouri | 125 | |
| Florida | 112 | |
| Georgia | 106 | |
| Nevada | 102 | |
| Texas | 78 | |
| Ohio | 78 | |
| Arizona | 76 | |
| Kentucky | 72 | |
| Oregon | 65 | |
| New York | 46 | |
| Illinois | 45 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
2,666 of these are people and 83 are organisations, so 3% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2021, and 1,613 registered in the last five years, 59% 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.
- SALINAS, CA123
- OMAHA, NE106
- BAY CITY, MI105
- SEATTLE, WA86
- LAS VEGAS, NV69
- SUN VALLEY, CA66
- ELIZABETHTOWN, KY65
- WARNER ROBINS, GA42
- SOUTH SIOUX CITY, NE34
- MODESTO, CA33
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Technician 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Behavior Technician | 26 | 0.9% |
| Personal Care Attendant | 24 | 0.9% |
| Attendant Care Provider | 19 | 0.7% |
| Nurse's Aide | 14 | 0.5% |
| Homemaker | 14 | 0.5% |
| Adult Companion | 14 | 0.5% |
| Counselor | 9 | 0.3% |
| Home Health Aide | 8 | 0.3% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Technician.
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.