Healthcare providers in Rhode Island

31,847 active providers practise in Rhode Island, which is 0.3% of the national registry and makes it the 45th 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

• Montana29,735
• Alaska35,695
• Delaware27,662
• North Dakota27,251
• New Hampshire40,363
• Hawaii40,569
• South Dakota22,958
• Maine42,953

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.