Healthcare providers in Louisiana

Fonteum tracks 4,516 healthcare providers in Louisiana across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 979 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 Louisiana

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 Louisiana.

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

Provider records in Louisiana

Medicare-certified facilities in Louisiana

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

Health professional shortage areas in Louisiana

Provider exclusions and sanctions in Louisiana

Related Louisiana healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in Louisiana

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in Louisiana

  0.7 per 100k — national density rank #47.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in Louisiana

  1.8 per 100k — national density rank #43.

• Plastic Surgery access gap in Louisiana

  1.4 per 100k — national density rank #36.

• Nursing homes in Louisiana

  266 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Home health agencies in Louisiana

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

• Dialysis facilities in Louisiana

  171 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospitals in Louisiana

  161 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in Louisiana

  119 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

• Ambulatory surgical centers in Louisiana

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

Frequently asked questions about Louisiana providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in Louisiana?

Fonteum tracks 4,516 providers in Louisiana 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 Louisiana. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in Louisiana?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in Louisiana with 766 providers, or 16.7 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #47 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in Louisiana?

Louisiana has 979 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 Louisiana.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in Louisiana?

Louisiana reports 1,596 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; Louisiana 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 Louisiana?

HRSA currently designates 523 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in Louisiana — 178 primary care, 172 dental health, and 173 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 Louisiana provider data?

The Louisiana 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 Louisiana 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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