Clinician type
Nurse Practitioners
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 461,178
- Per 100,000 residents
- 136.4
- Women
- 90%
- Median years since graduating
- 8
Who they are
- Women 90%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 1%
- Offer telehealth 22%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 93%
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, 30-39 minutes 11,842,392
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 8,696,982
- Subsequent nursing facility care with moderate level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 30 minutes 5,724,870
- Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count 4,413,627
- Subsequent nursing facility care with straightforward level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 15 minutes 4,091,591
- Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 2,511,440
- Residence visit for established patient with moderate level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 40 minutes 1,877,552
- Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample 1,695,577
- Destruction of precancer skin growth, 2-14 growths 1,649,302
- Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 1,176,455
- Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes 1,149,962
- Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit 1,058,610
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Atorvastatin Calcium (Atorvaliq, Lipitor) 4.9%
- Amlodipine Besylate (Norliqva, Norvasc) 3.4%
- Levothyroxine Sodium (Euthyrox, Levo-T, Ermeza) 3.3%
- Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 2.9%
- Lisinopril (Qbrelis, Zestril) 2.8%
- Metformin Hcl (Glumetza, Metformin Er Gastric, Metformin Er Osmotic) 2.4%
- Losartan Potassium (Cozaar) 2.4%
- Omeprazole 2.2%
- Metoprolol Succinate (Kapspargo Sprinkle, Toprol Xl) 2.1%
- Pantoprazole Sodium (Protonix Iv, Protonix) 1.9%
- Rosuvastatin Calcium (Crestor) 1.8%
- Furosemide (Furoscix, Lasix) 1.8%
- Albuterol Sulfate (Ventolin Hfa, Proair Digihaler, Proair Respiclick) 1.8%
- Apixaban (Eliquis) 1.5%
- Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen (Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen) 1.3%
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 1,499 Nurse Practitioners at Cleveland Clinic
- Adventhealth Orlando Orlando, FL 1,020 Nurse Practitioners at Adventhealth Orlando
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, TN 838 Nurse Practitioners at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Northwestern Medicine Central Dupage Hospital Winfield, IL 826 Nurse Practitioners at Northwestern Medicine Central Dupage Hospital
- Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 772 Nurse Practitioners at Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania
- Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 732 Nurse Practitioners at Massachusetts General Hospital
- Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY 658 Nurse Practitioners at Strong Memorial Hospital
- NYU Langone Hospitals New York, NY 656 Nurse Practitioners at NYU Langone Hospitals
- Ohio State University State Health System Columbus, OH 655 Nurse Practitioners at Ohio State University State Health System
- Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester Rochester, MN 632 Nurse Practitioners at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 1,072
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 1,004
- University of South Alabama College of Medicine 947
- University of Alabama School of Medicine 850
- Georgetown University School of Medicine 504
- Duke University School of Medicine 450
- Emory University School of Medicine 425
- University of Massachusetts Medical School 401
- East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine 375
- University of South Carolina School of Medicine 375
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $136.9M in general payments to 193,713 clinicians in Nurse Practitioners 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).