Healthcare providers in South Carolina

Fonteum tracks 5,858 healthcare providers in South Carolina across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 639 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 South 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 South Carolina.

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

Provider records in South Carolina

Medicare-certified facilities in South Carolina

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

Health professional shortage areas in South Carolina

Provider exclusions and sanctions in South Carolina

Related South Carolina healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in South Carolina

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in South Carolina

  0.8 per 100k — national density rank #45.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in South Carolina

  2.2 per 100k — national density rank #32.

• Pediatrics access gap in South Carolina

  7.6 per 100k — national density rank #33.

• Nursing homes in South Carolina

  187 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Dialysis facilities in South Carolina

  152 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in South Carolina

  91 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

• Ambulatory surgical centers in South Carolina

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

• Home health agencies in South Carolina

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

• Hospitals in South Carolina

  66 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

Frequently asked questions about South Carolina providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in South Carolina?

Fonteum tracks 5,858 providers in South 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 South Carolina. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in South Carolina?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in South Carolina with 1,561 providers, or 28.5 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #25 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in South Carolina?

South Carolina has 639 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 South Carolina.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in South Carolina?

South Carolina reports 577 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; South Carolina 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 South Carolina?

HRSA currently designates 267 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in South Carolina — 99 primary care, 91 dental health, and 77 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 South Carolina provider data?

The South 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 South 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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