Healthcare providers in Iowa

Fonteum tracks 4,462 healthcare providers in Iowa across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 796 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 Iowa

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 Iowa.

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

Provider records in Iowa

Medicare-certified facilities in Iowa

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

Health professional shortage areas in Iowa

Provider exclusions and sanctions in Iowa

Related Iowa healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in Iowa

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in Iowa

  2.0 per 100k — national density rank #37.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in Iowa

  2.2 per 100k — national density rank #17.

• Dermatology access gap in Iowa

  3.8 per 100k — national density rank #40.

• Nursing homes in Iowa

  390 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Home health agencies in Iowa

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

• Hospitals in Iowa

  118 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in Iowa

  70 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

• Dialysis facilities in Iowa

  61 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Ambulatory surgical centers in Iowa

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

• Medicaid program exclusions in Iowa

  1,270 state Medicaid exclusion records.

Frequently asked questions about Iowa providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in Iowa?

Fonteum tracks 4,462 providers in Iowa 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 Iowa. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in Iowa?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in Iowa with 2,027 providers, or 62.5 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #2 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in Iowa?

Iowa has 796 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 Iowa.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in Iowa?

Iowa reports 958 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). Fonteum also tracks 1,270 state Medicaid exclusion records for Iowa. Displayed records link to their source exclusion list when a source URL is available.

Does Fonteum track shortage areas in Iowa?

HRSA currently designates 447 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in Iowa — 162 primary care, 130 dental health, and 155 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 Iowa provider data?

The Iowa 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 Iowa 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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