Healthcare providers in Alabama

Fonteum tracks 4,192 healthcare providers in Alabama across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 754 Medicare-certified facilities across 6 care families from CMS Care Compare, with HRSA shortage-area and OIG exclusion context. Displayed figures include available source, snapshot-date, and methodology-version metadata. Snapshot 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Provider supply by specialty in Alabama

Active-provider counts for the 14 specialties Fonteum ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, with per-100,000 density (U.S. Census PEP V2025) and the national density rank of 51 jurisdictions. This covers the tracked specialties only — not every NPPES provider in Alabama.

Source:CMS NPPES·Snapshot 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07

Provider records in Alabama

Medicare-certified facilities in Alabama

754 Medicare-certified facilities operate in Alabama across the families Fonteum tracks from CMS Care Compare. Each family links to its facility-level page for Alabama.

Health professional shortage areas in Alabama

Provider exclusions and sanctions in Alabama

Related Alabama healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in Alabama

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Plastic Surgery access gap in Alabama

  1.0 per 100k — national density rank #49.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in Alabama

  1.0 per 100k — national density rank #41.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in Alabama

  1.8 per 100k — national density rank #42.

• Nursing homes in Alabama

  224 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Dialysis facilities in Alabama

  178 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Home health agencies in Alabama

  116 Medicare-certified home health agencies on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospitals in Alabama

  102 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in Alabama

  85 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

• Ambulatory surgical centers in Alabama

  49 Medicare-certified ambulatory surgical centers on CMS Care Compare.

Frequently asked questions about Alabama providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in Alabama?

Fonteum tracks 4,192 providers in Alabama across the 14 medical specialties it currently ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry. This is the supply within those tracked specialties, not every NPPES-registered provider in Alabama. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in Alabama?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in Alabama with 906 providers, or 17.6 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #46 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in Alabama?

Alabama has 754 Medicare-certified facilities across 6 families Fonteum tracks from CMS Care Compare, including nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies, hospices, dialysis facilities, and ambulatory surgical centers. Each family links to its facility-level Care Compare page for Alabama.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in Alabama?

Alabama reports 1,561 OIG LEIE federal exclusion records by address state, drawn from the OIG List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (loaded source date: May 8, 2026; checked July 12). State Medicaid exclusion lists are tracked for select states; Alabama is covered by the federal OIG list on the sanctions hub. Displayed records link to their source exclusion list when a source URL is available.

Does Fonteum track shortage areas in Alabama?

HRSA currently designates 248 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in Alabama — 105 primary care, 87 dental health, and 56 mental health. A HPSA marks a geography, population, or facility with too few clinicians relative to need, scored 0–26 by HRSA.

How current is the Alabama provider data?

The Alabama provider counts use the CMS NPPES supply-by-state snapshot dated 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07, under methodology nppes-supply-by-state/v2026.05. That page snapshot is not a claim of current NPPES or Care Compare coverage; source and date fields vary by section.

How Alabama provider data is built

Provider counts aggregate the CMS NPPES supply-by-state datasets under methodology nppes-supply-by-state/v2026.05; facility counts read the latest CMS Care Compare snapshots; HPSA and exclusion figures draw from HRSA and OIG / state Medicaid sources. Supported values display the available source name, snapshot date, and methodology version.

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