Healthcare providers in North Carolina

Fonteum tracks 11,739 healthcare providers in North Carolina across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 1,168 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 North Carolina

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 North Carolina.

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

Provider records in North Carolina

Medicare-certified facilities in North Carolina

1,168 Medicare-certified facilities operate in North Carolina across the families Fonteum tracks from CMS Care Compare. Each family links to its facility-level page for North Carolina.

Health professional shortage areas in North Carolina

Provider exclusions and sanctions in North Carolina

Related North Carolina healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in North Carolina

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in North Carolina

  2.6 per 100k — national density rank #14.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in North Carolina

  3.2 per 100k — national density rank #9.

• Plastic Surgery access gap in North Carolina

  1.5 per 100k — national density rank #35.

• Nursing homes in North Carolina

  418 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Dialysis facilities in North Carolina

  255 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Home health agencies in North Carolina

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

• Ambulatory surgical centers in North Carolina

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

• Hospitals in North Carolina

  120 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in North Carolina

  76 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

• Medicaid program exclusions in North Carolina

  166 state Medicaid exclusion records.

Frequently asked questions about North Carolina providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in North Carolina?

Fonteum tracks 11,739 providers in North Carolina 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 North Carolina. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in North Carolina?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in North Carolina with 2,254 providers, or 20.4 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #43 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in North Carolina?

North Carolina has 1,168 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 North Carolina.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in North Carolina?

North Carolina reports 1,555 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 166 state Medicaid exclusion records for North Carolina. Displayed records link to their source exclusion list when a source URL is available.

Does Fonteum track shortage areas in North Carolina?

HRSA currently designates 614 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in North Carolina — 207 primary care, 200 dental health, and 207 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 North Carolina provider data?

The North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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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