Clinician type
Midwives
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 6,120
- Per 100,000 residents
- 1.8
- Women
- 99%
- Median years since graduating
- 7
Who they are
- Women 99%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 2%
- Offer telehealth 1%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 86%
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
- Cervical or vaginal cancer screening; pelvic and clinical breast examination 1,210
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 545
- Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and conveyance of cervical or vaginal smear to laboratory 374
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 191
- Urinalysis, manual test 99
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 10-19 minutes 57
- New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes 55
- Screening 3d breast mammography 50
- Screening mammography 50
- Detection test for candida species (yeast), direct probe technique 41
- Detection test for gardnerella vaginalis (bacteria), direct probe technique 41
- New patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-44 minutes 30
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) 33.9%
- Fluconazole (Diflucan) 7.3%
- Valacyclovir Hcl (Valacyclovir, Valtrex) 3.8%
- Progesterone, Micronized (Crinone, Progesterone, Prometrium) 3.8%
- Medroxyprogesterone Acetate (Depo-Subq Provera 104) 3.1%
- Metronidazole (Noritate, Nuvessa, Vandazole) 2.4%
- Clobetasol Propionate 2.3%
- Buprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl (Buprenorphine-Naloxone, Suboxone, Zubsolv) 2.2%
- Clotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip (Clotrimazole-Betamethasone) 1.8%
- Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 1.6%
- Levothyroxine Sodium (Euthyrox, Levo-T, Ermeza) 1.6%
- Nystatin (Klayesta, Nystop, Nyamyc) 1.5%
- Buprenorphine Hcl (Belbuca) 1.3%
- Terconazole 1.3%
- Estrogens, Conjugated (Premarin) 1.1%
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
- Brookdale Hospital Medical Center Brooklyn, NY 5 Midwives at Brookdale Hospital Medical Center
- Kootenai Health Coeur D'alene, ID 4 Midwives at Kootenai Health
- Northeast Hospital Corporation Beverly, MA 4 Midwives at Northeast Hospital Corporation
- NYU Langone Hospitals New York, NY 4 Midwives at NYU Langone Hospitals
- Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT 3 Midwives at Yale-New Haven Hospital
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth Plymouth, MA 3 Midwives at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital Plymouth
- Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center Corvallis, OR 3 Midwives at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center
- Jamaica Hospital Medical Center Jamaica, NY 3 Midwives at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
- Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island Providence, RI 3 Midwives at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island
- Mh St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital Youngstown, OH 3 Midwives at Mh St Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- State University of New York Downstate Medical Center 13
- Georgetown University School of Medicine 11
- Yale University School of Medicine 9
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 7
- Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons 5
- Texas Tech University Health Science Center School of Medicine 5
- Emory University School of Medicine 3
- Ohio State University College of Medicine 3
- Perelman School of Med at The University of Pennsylvania 3
- State University of New York at Stony Brook, School of Medicine 3
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $97,648 in general payments to 580 clinicians in 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).