Medicare providers in North Carolina

97,193 unique NPIs are enrolled in Medicare in North Carolina, number 9 of 51. Practitioners in the 83 specialties tracked here account for 80,102 of them; the largest is nurse practitioner (13,800), and nurse practitioners outnumber family-practice physicians 3.3 to 1.

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1Enrolled NPIs 97,193
2Largest specialty Nurse Practitioner
3Rank of 51 #9
4Specialties present 83

Medicare-enrolled practitioners in North Carolina by specialty, 15 largest, bars to scale. Source: CMS PPEF, 2026-09-29.

Every specialty in North Carolina

Each figure is the number of NPIs enrolled in Medicare in North Carolina under that specialty, beside its share of the specialty's national total.

Specialty	NC	Share of US
Nurse Practitioner	13,800	3.8%
Physician Assistant	10,003	5.8%
Physical Therapist in Private Practice	4,477	3.9%
Family Practice	4,202	3.6%
Internal Medicine	4,119	3.2%
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)	4,098	6.5%
Clinical Social Worker	3,499	3.5%
Emergency Medicine	2,556	4%
Mental Health Counselor	2,319	3.2%
Pediatric Medicine	2,167	3.8%
Diagnostic Radiology	1,927	5%
Obstetrics/Gynecology	1,728	4.1%
Anesthesiology	1,655	3.3%
Psychiatry	1,444	3.9%
Optometry	1,305	2.8%
Hospitalist	1,301	4.4%
Chiropractic	1,293	2.8%
General Surgery	1,210	4.3%
Orthopedic Surgery	1,120	4.2%
Neurology	1,000	4.6%
Occupational Therapist in Private Practice	945	3.9%
Clinical Psychologist	852	2.3%
Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology)	848	3.4%
Qualified Speech Language Pathologist	731	5.1%
Ophthalmology	719	3.5%
Gastroenterology	658	3.6%
Registered Dietitian or Nutrition Professional	606	5.4%
Pathology	545	3.7%
Dermatology	511	3.4%
Pulmonary Disease	501	3.7%
Qualified Audiologist	498	4.2%
Urology	486	4.2%
Hematology/Oncology	484	4%
Certified Nurse Midwife (Cnm)	463	4.8%
Otolaryngology	411	3.6%
Podiatry	401	2.3%
Nephrology	392	3.5%
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation	337	3.1%
Dentist	336	5.6%
Infectious Disease	293	3.5%
Endocrinology	251	3%
Radiation Oncology	241	4.1%
Neurosurgery	218	3.3%
Critical Care (Intensivists)	213	2.6%
Rheumatology	208	3.3%
Medical Oncology	192	3.8%
Marriage and Family Therapist	190	1.2%
Interventional Cardiology	186	3.2%
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery	171	2.9%
Vascular Surgery	160	3.5%
Interventional Radiology	144	3.9%
Allergy/Immunology	126	3%
General Practice	110	1.2%
Hospice/Palliative Care	108	3.6%
Sports Medicine	108	4.1%
Geriatric Medicine	106	4%
Cardiac Electrophysiology	102	3.4%
Oral Surgery	99	2.7%
Anesthesiology Assistant	96	2.1%
Thoracic Surgery	88	2.4%
Pain Management	77	2.1%
Hand Surgery	63	3.2%
Interventional Pain Management	61	3.4%
Cardiac Surgery	55	3.3%
Hematology	52	4%
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology	52	5%
Surgical Oncology	50	3.1%
Gynecological Oncology	49	3.6%
Micrographic Dermatologic Surgery (Mds)	36	5.8%
Sleep Medicine	35	2.6%
Psychologist Billing Independently	33	3.2%
Addiction Medicine	30	3.8%
Colorectal Surgery (Proctology)	26	1.3%
Preventive Medicine	20	1.9%
Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine	19	1.7%
Maxillofacial Surgery	19	1.8%
Certified Clinical Nurse Specialist (Cns)	16	0.7%
Other (Non-Physician)	15	3.8%
Neuropsychiatry	14	3.2%
Other (Physician)	9	1.8%
Medical Genetics and Genomics	8	1.7%
Nuclear Medicine	5	0.7%
Epileptologists	1	0.3%

Source: CMS Medicare Fee-For-Service Public Provider Enrollment, extract of 2026-09-29; unique NPIs per state. Checked 2026-10-24. Methodology.