Healthcare providers in Alaska

Fonteum tracks 853 healthcare providers in Alaska across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 87 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 Alaska

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 Alaska.

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

Provider records in Alaska

Medicare-certified facilities in Alaska

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

Health professional shortage areas in Alaska

Provider exclusions and sanctions in Alaska

Related Alaska healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in Alaska

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in Alaska

  0.4 per 100k — national density rank #50.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in Alaska

  1.8 per 100k — national density rank #44.

• Dermatology access gap in Alaska

  3.5 per 100k — national density rank #44.

• Hospitals in Alaska

  25 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

• Nursing homes in Alaska

  20 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Ambulatory surgical centers in Alaska

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

• Home health agencies in Alaska

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

• Dialysis facilities in Alaska

  7 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in Alaska

  6 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

Frequently asked questions about Alaska providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in Alaska?

Fonteum tracks 853 providers in Alaska 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 Alaska. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in Alaska?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in Alaska with 327 providers, or 44.2 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #7 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in Alaska?

Alaska has 87 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 Alaska.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in Alaska?

Alaska reports 228 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; Alaska 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 Alaska?

HRSA currently designates 988 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in Alaska — 330 primary care, 328 dental health, and 330 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 Alaska provider data?

The Alaska 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 Alaska 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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