Healthcare providers in Tennessee

Fonteum tracks 7,142 healthcare providers in Tennessee across the 14 medical specialties it ingests from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry, alongside 942 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 Tennessee

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 Tennessee.

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

Provider records in Tennessee

Medicare-certified facilities in Tennessee

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

Health professional shortage areas in Tennessee

Provider exclusions and sanctions in Tennessee

Related Tennessee healthcare data

• Hospital operating margins in Tennessee

  CMS HCRIS cost-report margins vs the national average.

• Oncology (Medical) access gap in Tennessee

  2.0 per 100k — national density rank #23.

• Obstetrics & Gynecology access gap in Tennessee

  2.3 per 100k — national density rank #27.

• Plastic Surgery access gap in Tennessee

  1.6 per 100k — national density rank #30.

• Nursing homes in Tennessee

  303 Medicare-certified nursing homes on CMS Care Compare.

• Dialysis facilities in Tennessee

  191 Medicare-certified dialysis facilities on CMS Care Compare.

• Ambulatory surgical centers in Tennessee

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

• Home health agencies in Tennessee

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

• Hospitals in Tennessee

  122 Medicare-certified hospitals on CMS Care Compare.

• Hospice providers in Tennessee

  60 Medicare-certified hospice providers on CMS Care Compare.

Frequently asked questions about Tennessee providers

How many healthcare providers does Fonteum track in Tennessee?

Fonteum tracks 7,142 providers in Tennessee 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 Tennessee. The snapshot date is 2026-05-06 – 2026-05-07.

Which medical specialty has the most providers in Tennessee?

Among the 14 tracked specialties, Chiropractic is the largest in Tennessee with 1,538 providers, or 21.3 per 100,000 residents — a national density rank of #40 of 51. Counts come from the CMS NPPES NPI Registry.

What Medicare-certified facilities are in Tennessee?

Tennessee has 942 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 Tennessee.

Are there provider exclusions or sanctions in Tennessee?

Tennessee reports 1,500 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; Tennessee 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 Tennessee?

HRSA currently designates 385 active Health Professional Shortage Areas in Tennessee — 151 primary care, 150 dental health, and 84 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 Tennessee provider data?

The Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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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