Healthcare providers in Iowa

65,096 active providers practise in Iowa, which is 0.7% of the national registry and makes it the 37th largest state by provider count.

Largest specialties

By primary taxonomy, counting practice location. A provider who lists several taxonomies appears once, under the one they flagged primary.

Neighbouring states by size

• New Mexico68,884
• Kansas71,655
• Mississippi57,531
• District of Columbia52,426
• Idaho45,578
• Arkansas85,280
• Maine42,953
• Hawaii40,569

Looking up one provider

Counts are from the monthly file. For a specific provider, the lookup reads the live registry, which is the only way to know whether an identifier was deactivated in the last few weeks.

Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Practice location, primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.