Clinician type
Certified Nurse-Midwives
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 13,230
- Per 100,000 residents
- 3.9
- Women
- 99%
- Median years since graduating
- 9
Who they are
- Women 99%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 2%
- Offer telehealth 2%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 90%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 9,188
- Cervical or vaginal cancer screening; pelvic and clinical breast examination 7,316
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 6,227
- Injection of drug or substance under skin or into muscle 6,094
- Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and conveyance of cervical or vaginal smear to laboratory 2,523
- Electrical stimulation (unattended), to one or more areas for indication(s) other than wound care, as part of a therapy plan of care 1,253
- Removal of impacted ear wax 1,155
- Urinalysis, manual test 1,149
- New patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-44 minutes 823
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 10-19 minutes 527
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 438
- Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit 418
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Estradiol (Divigel, Estring, Estrogel) 29.0%
- Fluconazole (Diflucan) 5.0%
- Progesterone, Micronized (Crinone, Progesterone, Prometrium) 4.8%
- Levothyroxine Sodium (Euthyrox, Levo-T, Ermeza) 2.9%
- Valacyclovir Hcl (Valacyclovir, Valtrex) 2.5%
- Clobetasol Propionate 2.3%
- Metronidazole (Noritate, Nuvessa, Vandazole) 2.2%
- Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 1.9%
- Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl (Buprenorphine-Naloxone, Suboxone, Zubsolv) 1.8%
- Clotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip (Clotrimazole-Betamethasone) 1.6%
- Alendronate Sodium (Binosto, Fosamax) 1.6%
- Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (Depo-Subq Provera 104) 1.5%
- Mirabegron (Myrbetriq) 1.3%
- Amlodipine Besylate (Norliqva, Norvasc) 1.2%
- Nitrofurantoin Monohyd/M-Cryst (Macrobid, Nitrofurantoin Mono-Macro) 1.2%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 26 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Cleveland Clinic
- University of Colorado Hospital Authority Aurora, CO 21 Certified Nurse-Midwives at University of Colorado Hospital Authority
- Baystate Medical Center Springfield, MA 20 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Baystate Medical Center
- Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT 14 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Yale-New Haven Hospital
- University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics Chicago, IL 13 Certified Nurse-Midwives at University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Baltimore, MD 13 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the
- Henry Ford Health Hospital Detroit, MI 13 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Henry Ford Health Hospital
- Bronson Methodist Hospital Kalamazoo, MI 12 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Bronson Methodist Hospital
- Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital Tacoma, WA 11 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Tacoma General Allenmore Hospital
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Fall River, MA 11 Certified Nurse-Midwives at Southcoast Hospitals Group
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- Georgetown University School of Medicine 81
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 57
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 53
- Yale University School of Medicine 51
- University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb) 40
- Emory University School of Medicine 33
- University of Michigan Medical School 25
- Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine 24
- University of Minnesota Medical School 21
- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center 20
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $760,356 in general payments to 4,129 clinicians in Certified Nurse-Midwives in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).