Nurse Practitioner Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Nurse practitioner channels posted 50.1% of the on-topic videos among YouTube’s most-viewed results for ‘nurse practitioner’, ‘APRN’ and ‘NP school’ and drew 30.5% of their views; one surgical resident’s channel drew 49.4% of all on-topic views, and one hour-long NP assessment video drew 80.8% of the NP channels’ views (our read, Nov 10, 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Videos of 60 seconds or less were 19.4% of the on-topic videos and drew 61.3% of the views. Student personal vlogs were 12.2% of the on-topic videos but drew 0.5% of the views (our read, Nov 10, 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
3. The 47 U.S.-placed NP channels posted 1,984 videos in the year to Nov 10, 2026, but the median channel posted 9 and 20 posted nothing (our read). (Mark Studios) See details
4. CMS listed 203,212 providers of type ‘Nurse Practitioner’ billing Medicare Part B fee-for-service in 2024, 45.1% more than the 140,050 in 2019, while the family practice count fell 1.0%. Medicare paid NPs $10,150,828,419 in 2024 (our sums of CMS’s file). (CMS) See details
5. In Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties, 863, 963 and 156 nurse practitioners billed Medicare in 2024, 13.3% of Florida’s 14,952 (our count from CMS’s file). (CMS) See details
6. Nurse practitioners held 21.6% of the provider lines billing a subsequent annual wellness visit in 2024, 20.3% of those billing a 99214 office visit and 46.7% of those billing a psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services (our sums of CMS’s files). (CMS) See details
7. BLS estimated 323,040 wage and salary nurse practitioner jobs in May 2025, with a median annual wage of $132,300. Florida had 21,790 jobs at a median of $129,510, and the Port St. Lucie area (Martin and St. Lucie counties) a median of $128,770. (BLS) See details
8. BLS projects nurse practitioner jobs to grow 41.0% from 2025 to 2035, against 3.5% for all jobs, first on its fastest-growing list; in the 2024-2034 projections NPs ranked third at 40.1%. (BLS) See details
9. AANP counted 461,246 actively licensed NPs from 2025 licence data. The widely repeated “more than 385,000” is AANP’s earlier count of licences, not of working NPs; AANP’s count rose 41.8% between its 2020 and 2025 data (our calculation). (AANP) See details
10. Florida had 54,783 in-state active APRN licences at the end of fiscal year 2025-26, and 17,570 APRNs held autonomous practice authority, 23.7% of all APRN licences (our calculation). Autonomous registration requires at least 3,000 supervised clinical hours and is limited to primary care. (Florida Department of Health) See details
11. NPs and physician assistants delivered 25.6% of traditional Medicare evaluation and management visits by 2019 (Patel et al., BMJ, 2023). Psychiatric NPs treating Medicare patients grew 162 percent from 2011 to 2019, and NPs’ share of the psychiatric-medication Part D claims studied reached 24.8% by 2022. (BMJ) See details
12. 493 SEC annual reports filed in 2025 named nurse practitioners, after a peak of 532 in 2022; 86.0% of the 2025 filings also said “Sunshine”, because since 2022 drug and device makers must report payments to NPs (our count with EDGAR full-text search). (Mark Studios) See details
13. The “NPs provide care equal to physicians” line rests most firmly on the 2018 Cochrane review of 18 randomised trials, which pooled NPs with other nurses and found care probably equal or possibly even better, with very low certainty on costs. (Cochrane) See details

Who makes the most-viewed nurse practitioner videos on YouTube?

Nurse practitioners and NP-led practices posted 50.1% of the on-topic videos but drew 30.5% of the on-topic views when we read YouTube's 200 most-viewed results for each of 'nurse practitioner', 'APRN' and 'NP school' on November 10, 2026 (our calculation). We pulled the three view-sorted lists through the YouTube Data API on one day, with no country or language filter, and got 498 unique videos from 229 channels with 155.6 million lifetime views in all (155,582,178) (our calculation). The lists are YouTube's own ranking on that day, not a census; view counts are lifetime snapshots; we did not watch the videos. We classed every channel by hand from its own title, description and sample titles. A channel counts as a nurse practitioner when its own text, channel title or handle says so; we did not check anyone's licence.

These lists are almost all on-topic: 475 of the videos came from on-topic channels, and off-topic videos were 4.6% of the sample with 0.6% of its views (our calculation). Nearly all of the off-topic set sits in the 'NP school' list, where 11.0% of the videos came from schools known as 'NP School' or 'N P School', mostly in India, or a polytechnic (22 videos), not from nurse practitioner education. We count those and withhold the ones that show children.

One channel outside the profession drew most of the views. Miki Rai, whose own text names her surgical residency, drew 49.4% of the on-topic views with four doctor-versus-nurse shorts, and other clinicians as a group drew 57.1% (our calculation). Without that one channel, nurse practitioner and NP-led practice channels drew 60.3% of on-topic views and other clinicians 15.1%. The NP share is itself one video deep: a head-to-toe assessment video of almost an hour on the EK Nurse Practitioner channel drew 80.8% of the views to NP channels, and the other NP channels drew 7.8% of on-topic views once that video is left out (our calculation). We found 71 nurse practitioner and NP-led practice channels; almost all are individual NPs talking about the job, pay and school, and very few present as an NP-led practice.

Students and sellers are a large share of the videos and a small share of the views. Student personal vlogs, which we publish as counts only, came from 35 channels and were 12.2% of on-topic videos but drew 0.5% of on-topic views. NP-school, exam-prep and career sellers, such as board-review courses and a preceptor-matching service, came from 14 channels and posted 7.2% of on-topic videos with 0.4% of the views (our calculation). Media, news, podcast and general-creator channels drew 4.5%; hospitals, health systems and schools of nursing posted 4.0% of on-topic videos and drew 1.3%; government, association and NGO channels drew 5.1%, nearly all of it from one campaign channel's patient-family video, which we do not name (our calculation).

Views were concentrated. The three most-viewed channels drew 79.1% of on-topic views and the ten most-viewed 88.2%, with no tie at either cut-off (our calculation). In order, the top ten were Miki Rai, EK Nurse Practitioner, a withheld channel, Doctor Mike, Nurse Alex, MorganSanDiego, Dr. Caleb Masterson, Nurse Liz, CLS Health and CNA Insider; the eleventh was Med School Insiders.

The three searches surface different makers. In the 'NP school' list, student personal vlogs were 30.9% of on-topic videos, while nurse practitioner channels drew 52.4% of its on-topic views. In the 'APRN' list, NP channels drew 32.1% of on-topic views and media, news, podcast and general creators 27.3%, led by a Singapore broadcaster's documentary on an advanced practice nurse (our calculation). By title, 149 on-topic videos were about NP school, 50 of them from student vlogs; 52 were day-in-the-life or come-to-work-with-me videos; 33 were about pay or salary; and 20 were court, crime or accident news about nurse practitioners. 23 titles compared NPs or nurses with doctors, physician assistants, nurse anesthetists, psychologists or midwives, and those comparisons drew 43.0% of on-topic views (our calculation; every flagged title read, false matches removed). 42.1% of the on-topic videos were published in 2024 or later.

Short videos carried the views. 19.4% of on-topic videos ran 60 seconds or less, and they drew 61.3% of on-topic views; at the other end, 20.4% ran longer than 20 minutes and drew 29.2%, most of it the single head-to-toe assessment video (our calculation).

47 of the 71 nurse practitioner and NP-led practice channels were U.S.-placed, by their own text or their country setting, and together they drew 5.1% of on-topic views; the EK Nurse Practitioner channel states no country (our calculation). 4 on-topic channels named a Florida place (FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Orlando Health, Halifax Health in East Central Florida, and one withheld channel), and none of them was a nurse practitioner or NP-led practice. 0 videos came from a channel naming Palm Beach, Broward or Martin county (our calculation).

We also read a full year of uploads from those 47 U.S.-placed NP channels. They posted 1,984 videos between November 10, 2025 and November 10, 2026, but the median channel posted 9, 20 posted nothing and 8 posted 100 or more (our calculation). Nursewhoinvests posted the most, 303, and the three largest posters made 37.4% of the year's uploads. 46.5% of the year's uploads ran 60 seconds or less, and the median upload had 1,485 views (our calculation).

Students' personal vlogs, patients' and families' own stories and children on video are published as class and counts only. We withheld 88 videos from the public files: 49 channels at channel level and 7 single videos in otherwise named channels, such as a video naming a child and a podcast guest's own addiction story (our calculation). The files are youtube-videos.csv (every sample video), youtube-channels.csv (every channel and its class) and youtube-us-nurse-practitioner-channels.csv (the year of uploads).

What do large studies find when they compare nurse practitioner and physician care?

The largest U.S. cohort studies mostly find small or no differences on the outcomes they measured, with different strengths for each clinician type. In a Veterans Affairs cohort of 368 481 adults with drug-treated diabetes at 568 VA primary care facilities, nurse practitioners were the main primary care provider for 18.2% of patients in 2012, and the authors found no clinically significant difference in blood sugar, blood pressure or LDL cholesterol between patients of physicians, NPs and physician assistants (Annals of Internal Medicine, Jackson et al.). The study population was mostly men in a staff-model health system, a limit the authors state.

A 2019 study of medically complex VA patients with diabetes (2012-13 data) found case-mix-adjusted total care costs 6-7 percent lower for patients of NPs and PAs than for physician patients, driven by more emergency and inpatient use among physician patients (Health Affairs, Morgan et al.). A 2018 study of Medicare claims for 2012-2013 compared primary care NPs and physicians on 16 claims-based quality measures: beneficiaries attributed to NPs had fewer hospital admissions, readmissions, inappropriate emergency visits and low-value back imaging, while beneficiaries attributed to physicians more often received chronic disease management and cancer screening (Medical Care, Buerhaus et al.).

In a 2023 VA cohort of 38,543 older patients with diabetes at high risk of low blood sugar, 4843 were reassigned to NPs and 33,700 to physicians after their physician left in 2010-2012. Two years later, patients of NPs had a 20.4 percentage-point lower probability of an HbA1c below 7%, which the authors treat as overly intensive, low-value control for this group (International Journal of Nursing Studies, Schuttner et al.). A 2022 systematic review of 11 articles concluded that NPs provided equal or better quality on the primary care outcomes measured; it was published in the journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the NPs' professional association, and its authors recommend full practice authority (JAANP, Barnett et al.). The section on popular NP numbers below traces where the “care equal to physicians” claim comes from.

What do studies find about NP prescribing and low-value care?

Results differ by measure and by state law. In a 20% sample of 2015 Medicare Part D data covering 222,689 primary care providers, 8.0% of NPs met at least one of the authors' three definitions of opioid overprescribing, against 3.8% of physicians and 9.8% of PAs (Journal of General Internal Medicine, Lozada et al.). The same study found NPs and PAs in states with independent prescribing authority more than 20 times as likely to overprescribe as those in restricted states, while most NPs and PAs prescribed in a pattern similar to physicians (JGIM, Lozada et al.).

In 2021 claims for 14,579 adults in Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, NPs gave antibiotics for acute upper respiratory infection in 42% of eligible cases, ordered low-value lower-back x-rays in 13% and routine ECGs in 6%; the authors call these lower than or similar to rates for clinicians in other studies, and the study had no physician comparison group of its own (American Journal of Managed Care, Nugent et al.).

What do studies of full practice authority laws measure?

Studies of state laws that let NPs practise without physician oversight report mixed, outcome-specific results. A 2025 study of hospital discharges across 22 states in 2010-2019 found that full practice authority reduced avoidable hospitalizations for diabetes and other chronic conditions (Journal of Health Economics, McMichael). In a 2024 cohort of 334 618 nursing home residents with dementia who died in 2016-2018, hospitalization in the last 30 days of life was 1.76 percentage points lower for residents with extensive rather than minimal NP care in full practice authority states, against 0.43 points in restricted states (JAMA Health Forum, Kosar et al.). A 2026 analysis of Medical Expenditure Panel Survey data for 2010-2019 looked at 6 high-prevalence cancers and found lower bladder cancer detection, higher cervical cancer and melanoma detection and no change for lung cancer or lymphoma after full practice authority (American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Fitzpatrick et al.). All three are observational; none measures long-term survival.

In the same nursing home cohort, 38.0% of residents received extensive NP care, meaning more than half of their nursing home primary care visits (Kosar et al.). Adjusted hospice use at death was 55.6% with extensive NP care against 53.6% with minimal NP care, and hospitalization in the last 30 days of life was 31.6% against 32.3% (JAMA Health Forum, Kosar et al.).

How much of U.S. care do nurse practitioners deliver, by peer-reviewed counts?

About a quarter of Medicare visits by 2019, counting NPs and PAs together. In a 20% sample of traditional Medicare covering 276 million visits, the share of evaluation and management visits delivered by NPs and PAs rose from 14.0% in 2013 to 25.6% in 2019 (BMJ, Patel et al.). Among patients with any visit in 2019, 41.9% saw an NP or PA at least once (BMJ, Patel et al.). The share ranged by condition from 13.2% for eye disorders to 41.5% for respiratory infections in 2019 (BMJ, Patel et al.). Medicare covers mostly people 65 and older and people with disabilities, and visits billed “incident to” a physician appear under the physician, so these shares undercount NP work.

Practices with NPs were more likely than practices without them to sit in rural communities, 11.9% against 5.5%, and in low-income communities, 23.3% against 17.0%, in 2023 (JAMA Network Open, O'Reilly-Jacob et al.). The practice counts come from a commercial database, IQVIA OneKey.

How fast have psychiatric NPs and NP telehealth grown in Medicare?

From 2011 to 2019 the number of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners treating fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries grew 162 percent, while the number of psychiatrists doing so fell 6 percent (Health Affairs, Cai et al.). Psychiatric NP visits per beneficiary rose 111.3 percent as psychiatrist visits dropped 29.0 percent, and psychiatric NPs' share of mental health prescriber visits rose from 12.5 percent to 29.8 percent, above 50 percent in rural regions with full scope of practice (Health Affairs, Cai et al.). In Medicare Part D, NPs' share of the psychiatric medication claims studied rose from 8.6% in 2013 to 24.8% in 2022, while psychiatrists' share fell from 24.4% to 18.0% (Medical Care, Hooker et al.). Our psychiatrist page covers psychiatrists' own numbers.

Before the pandemic waivers, 75.9% of the 257 979 telemedicine visits by rural Medicare beneficiaries in 2019 were for mental health conditions (JAMA Health Forum, Barnett et al.). The share of those mental health telemedicine visits delivered by nonphysician clinicians, a group that combines nurse practitioners, psychologists and social workers, rose from 21.4% in 2010 to 57.2% in 2019, while psychiatrists' share fell from 71.2% to 35.8% (JAMA Health Forum, Barnett et al.). The study does not split NPs out of that group, and claims cannot show whether a visit was video or phone beyond the telemedicine code.

What share of buprenorphine prescribing do NPs provide?

From 2016 to 2019 the number of buprenorphine-waivered clinicians per 100,000 rural residents rose 111 percent, and NPs and PAs, eligible for federal waivers from 2017, accounted for more than half of that increase (Health Affairs, Barnett, Lee and Frank). NPs and PAs were the first waivered clinicians in 165 rural counties with 5.7 million residents (Health Affairs, Barnett, Lee and Frank). In Philadelphia's Medicaid program, primary care NPs had become the largest group of buprenorphine prescribers to beneficiaries with opioid use disorder by 2023, and removing the federal X-waiver was not associated with a change in prescribing rates (JAANP, Turi et al.). That study covers one city's Medicaid program and appeared in the journal of the NPs' professional association.

What do studies find about nurse and NP videos on TikTok?

Few content studies count nurse practitioners as a separate creator group. A 2026 study of 100 English-language TikTok videos under #Nursetok, selected on April 30, 2024, found 96% were made by registered nurses (Contemporary Nurse, Usman et al.). Entertainment made up 45% of the videos and education 10% (Contemporary Nurse, Usman et al.). The videos averaged 0.58 minutes and 5.1 million views each (Contemporary Nurse, Usman et al.). Two reviewers rated low actionability (13% on PEMAT-A/V) and an average DISCERN score of 23.6%, which the authors call moderate to poor quality (Contemporary Nurse, Usman et al.).

A study of 400 TikTok videos from four skin treatment hashtags, searched July 16, 2021, sorted creators into classes that included nurse practitioners; licensed professionals of all kinds posted 37.3% of the videos and patients posted the most, 40.8% (Journal of Drugs in Dermatology, Campbell et al.). The abstract does not give an NP-only share. Our dermatology page covers skin-care video studies in more depth.

What do NP-led video programs report?

The published NP-led video studies we found are small pilots without control groups. A 2026 pilot of six storytelling videos on diabetic foot care for 30 adults with an A1C above 8% reported an 80% completion rate (24 of 30) and gains in foot care knowledge and self-care among completers (JAANP, Ju et al.). In a Veterans Affairs pilot published in 2020, a nurse practitioner visited older veterans at home and linked them by live video to a team of geriatric specialists: 11 visits with 9 patients, with high satisfaction reported by patients and clinicians (Clinical Gerontologist, Appleman et al.). Neither design can show that the videos changed health outcomes.

How many nurse practitioners are there in the U.S.?

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the NPs’ professional association, counted 461,246 actively licensed nurse practitioners in the United States from 2025 licence data (AANP). It announced the figure as “more than 461,000” during National NP Week in November 2025 (AANP), and its November 2026 NP Week release still uses 461,000 (AANP), because AANP now counts every other year and skipped 2024. AANP sells memberships, conferences and reports to NPs and campaigns for wider NP practice rights, so this is an association’s count.

The count is a deduplicated census of active licences from every state board of nursing and D.C. It includes NPs who teach, research or manage rather than see patients, and leaves out inactive and retired licences. Before deduplication the board files held well over 650,000 licences, because many NPs are licensed in several states (AANP). For 2025 AANP assigned each NP to one state by address, and where a board did not say which licensees were NPs or where they lived, it filled the gap with a tool that scraped web search results. The Bureau of Labor Statistics counts a narrower group, employed NPs in patient care, so its figure in the jobs section below is lower; the two do not measure the same thing.

On AANP’s own figures the count rose 41.8% between the 2020 and 2025 data (our calculation). AANP describes the step from 2023 to 2025 as a 7% increase, over a period it says was not quite two full years (AANP). AANP now labels each count by the year the licence data were pulled. It used to label counts by the year the count was finished, so the 431,410 figure was once called the 2024 count, one reason older articles pin the same number to different years.

How many patient visits do NPs provide?

AANP’s November 2026 release says NPs conduct nearly a billion patient visits a year (AANP). AANP gives no source, method or measurement year for the figure. Its May 2021 release used a larger wording, more than one billion visits a year (AANP), and the same wording appeared in its 2022 and 2023 releases. We found no published count behind either version, so we treat both as the association’s claims, not measurements.

Where do NPs work and what do they treat?

AANP’s most recent public profile of the profession comes from its 2022 workforce survey, printed on an NP Fact Sheet last updated in February 2024. In that survey 88.0% of NPs were certified in an area of primary care (AANP, archived) and 70.3% delivered primary care (AANP, archived). Family practice was the largest certification, held by 70.3% of NPs (AANP, archived); psychiatric-mental health was held by 6.5% (AANP, archived). Some NPs hold more than one certification.

Among full-time NPs in the same survey, 83.2% saw Medicare patients (AANP, archived) and 81.9% saw Medicaid patients (AANP, archived); 45.6% held hospital privileges (AANP, archived), and 56.9% saw three or more patients an hour (AANP, archived). 96.2% of NPs prescribed medicines (AANP, archived), and full-time NPs wrote an average of 21 prescriptions a day (AANP, archived). The fact sheet also cited more than 39,000 new NPs finishing their programs in 2021-2022, a figure it took from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AANP, citing AACN). AANP took the fact sheet down in December 2024 and has not posted a replacement; we read it through the Internet Archive. The survey is self-reported and the page does not print its sample size.

What do nurse practitioners earn, by AANP’s survey?

Full-time NPs who answered AANP’s 2024 National Workforce Survey reported a median base salary of $120,000 (AANP) and a median total income, bonuses included, of $128,000 (AANP). In AANP’s Region 11 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Mississippi) the median base salary was $115,000 (AANP). More than 10,250 NPs completed the survey (AANP), 1,395 of them in Region 11 (AANP); AANP publishes no Florida-only figure. Respondents choose to take part, so these are survey medians, not a census of pay. AANP’s 2022 survey put the median base salary at $113,000 for 2021 (AANP, archived); the two surveys reach different respondents. Government wage estimates for NPs, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are in the jobs section below.

How many states let NPs practise without a physician agreement?

AANP counted 27 states, plus Washington, D.C. and two U.S. territories, with full practice authority for NPs as of 2025 (AANP). Under that label the state board of nursing alone licenses NPs to evaluate patients, diagnose, order tests and prescribe. The classification is AANP’s: AANP campaigns for full practice authority, and physician groups oppose parts of it. In 11 of those states NPs must first keep a practice agreement for a set period, a time-in-practice rule (AANP).

AANP’s researchers pooled its 2016-2024 surveys of 7,251 full-time NPs in the full-practice states (AANP). 54.0% of NPs in states with a time-in-practice rule still reported a practice agreement (AANP), against 32.3% in full-practice states without one (AANP). Part of that gap is NPs still completing the required period, and most NPs in both groups said their employer, not the law, required the agreement. AANP notes its sample may not represent every state.

How many advanced practice nurses are licensed in Florida?

Florida had 54,783 Advanced Practice Registered Nurse licences held by people with a Florida address and in active status on June 30, 2026, the end of fiscal year 2025-26, by the Florida Department of Health’s count (Florida DOH). Adding out-of-state holders and inactive, delinquent, military and retired licences, the total was 74,261 (Florida DOH). 13,689 active licences belonged to people with an address outside Florida (Florida DOH), and 73.8% of all APRN licences were in-state and active (our calculation). Florida’s APRN licence covers nurse practitioners, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives and clinical nurse specialists, and the department does not split it by role, so these are not counts of NPs alone and not counts of people practising.

In-state active APRN licences grew 16.1% over those two fiscal years (our calculation). In fiscal year 2025-26 the department issued 8,315 new APRN licences (Florida DOH).

The last study that split Florida’s APRNs by role is older. The Florida Center for Nursing, the state’s nursing workforce centre at the University of South Florida, estimated that 27,687 APRNs were working in nursing in Florida in the 2018-2019 renewal cycle (Florida Center for Nursing), about 18,838 of them credentialed as nurse practitioners (Florida Center for Nursing). The centre’s 2023-2024 licensure report is published only through Issuu, whose terms bar automated reading, so we did not use it. We found no current public count of Florida NPs by county, Palm Beach, Broward and Martin included: the department’s licence data download requires an account. Metro-area NP employment estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, where published, are in the jobs section below.

How many Florida APRNs practise autonomously?

Florida’s Department of Health reports 17,570 APRNs with autonomous practice authority in its fiscal year 2025-26 annual report (Florida DOH). That is 23.7% of all APRN licences in any status (our calculation), the same share the report prints beside the figure. The 2020 law behind it (House Bill 607, section 464.0123 of the Florida Statutes) lets APRNs who meet its requirements register to practise primary care without a physician protocol; the rules section covers the law itself. AANP still classes Florida as a restricted-practice state, because APRNs outside the autonomous route must keep a career-long protocol with a physician.

The department issued 2,663 autonomous-practice upgrades in fiscal year 2023-24 (Florida DOH), 2,729 in 2024-25 (Florida DOH) and 3,019 in 2025-26 (Florida DOH), when it received 3,622 applications (Florida DOH). Issues equalled 83.4% of applications received in 2025-26 (our calculation); applications and issues in one year can belong to different cohorts, so this is not an approval rate. The count records registration, not whether a registrant runs an independent practice.

Which NP specialties are growing fastest in school?

About 30% of NP graduates in 2025 came from psychiatric-mental health programs, by AANP’s analysis of American Association of Colleges of Nursing reports (AANP, AACN data), against about 60% from primary care programs (AANP, AACN data). In enrollment the split was about 18% psychiatric-mental health (AANP, AACN data) and 62% primary care (AANP, AACN data). Psychiatric-mental health grew fastest: master’s enrollment in those programs rose 579% between 2016 and 2025 (AANP, AACN data). The number of NP doctor of nursing practice programs grew 88.4% over the same years (AANP, AACN data). AACN’s reports are national totals, and not every school reports every year.

How many nurse practitioners bill Medicare?

CMS’s Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file lists 203,212 providers of type Nurse Practitioner who billed Medicare Part B fee-for-service in 2024 (CMS), up 45.1% from 140,050 in 2019 (CMS) (our calculation). Over the same years the file’s Family Practice count fell 1.0%, from 84,471 (CMS) to 83,639 (CMS), and its Physician Assistant count rose 35.0%, from 83,340 (CMS) to 112,514 (CMS) (our calculations). In 2024 the file lists 2.4 Nurse Practitioner providers for every Family Practice provider, and nurse practitioners make up 15.7% of all provider rows, up from 12.1% in 2019 (our calculations).

2024 is the newest year CMS has published. The file counts Part B fee-for-service claims only. Original Medicare covers mostly people 65 and older and people under 65 with long-term disabilities; Medicare Advantage plans, Medicaid, private insurance and self-pay patients are not in it, and providers with fewer than 11 Medicare patients are not listed. It counts nurse practitioners who bill original Medicare under their own billing number. A nurse practitioner who bills “incident to” a physician is paid under the physician’s number, so that work appears under the physician’s type, not here. CMS uses one type, Nurse Practitioner, for every certification: it does not separate family, adult-gerontology or psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners. A search of both files for any type containing “ractitioner” returns the same counts as Nurse Practitioner, so no other type holds the word. The file also has no billing modifiers, so it cannot separate video visits from in-person ones. Family Practice and Physician Assistant are shown as context; the family medicine statistics page covers family physicians in Medicare in detail.

The file cannot say why a count moves. A provider enters the list by billing at least 11 original-Medicare patients under their own number and leaves it if patients move to Medicare Advantage, if billing shifts to “incident to” a physician, or if the provider stops billing Medicare. The rise in nurse practitioner rows is a rise in billing under nurse practitioners’ own numbers, not a head count of the profession; this page’s workforce section gives the BLS employment counts.

How many nurse practitioners bill Medicare in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

CMS lists 14,952 Florida providers of type Nurse Practitioner billing Medicare Part B fee-for-service in 2024 (CMS), up 69.5% from 8,822 in 2019 (CMS) (our calculation). Florida holds 7.4% of the U.S. total in 2024, and the state’s file lists 3.0 Nurse Practitioner providers for every one of its 4,914 Family Practice providers (CMS) (our calculations). Medicare paid Florida’s Nurse Practitioner providers $1,212,769,259 in 2024 (1.21 billion dollars; our calculation).

By our match of CMS’s by Provider file to the Census Bureau’s ZIP-to-county relationship file, 863 Nurse Practitioner providers with a Palm Beach County practice address billed original Medicare in 2024, 963 in Broward County and 156 in Martin County. The three counties hold 13.3% of Florida’s 14,952 (our calculation).

A ZIP code split across counties goes to the county holding most of its land, so a practice in a border ZIP can count in the neighboring county. The practice address is the one the provider gives Medicare; a telehealth nurse practitioner listed in one county may treat patients anywhere in the state. The county counts and payment sums are in this page’s aggregate CSV, which holds no provider names or NPIs.

How much does Medicare pay nurse practitioners?

Medicare paid providers of type Nurse Practitioner $10,150,828,419 (10.15 billion dollars) for Part B fee-for-service services in 2024, against $3,753,091,395 (3.75 billion dollars) in 2019, a rise of 170.5% before inflation (our calculations from CMS’s by Provider files). The typical provider received far less than the average. The median Nurse Practitioner provider received $13,301 in 2024 and $12,689 in 2019, and treated 95 Medicare beneficiaries in 2024 against 115 in 2019 (half of the providers received or treated more, half less; our calculations). The median Family Practice provider received $31,326 in 2024 (our calculation, from the family medicine page’s aggregate CSV).

The payment total is concentrated at the top. The top 1% of Nurse Practitioner providers by payment received 45.7% of the type’s payments in 2024, against 15.8% in 2019, and 1,265 Nurse Practitioner providers received more than $1 million each in 2024, against 93 in 2019 (our calculations). The by Provider file gives one payment total per provider and does not say which services, procedures, drugs or supplies make it up, so this page does not say what drove the rise at the top. The beneficiaries of Nurse Practitioner providers averaged 74.3 years of age in 2024, weighting each provider’s published average by that provider’s patients (our calculation; a patient seen by two providers counts twice). These totals are payments for services billed under nurse practitioners’ own numbers, which Medicare pays at a reduced share of the physician fee schedule rate for most services (see this page’s rules section); they are not nurse practitioners’ earnings.

Which Medicare services do nurse practitioners bill?

CMS’s 2024 by Provider and Service file lists 106,466 Nurse Practitioner lines for an established-patient visit with a moderate level of decision making (CPT 99214) (CMS) out of 523,486 lines of every provider type (CMS), 20.3% (our calculation), and 93,468 lines (CMS) out of 473,425 (CMS) for the lower-level established-patient visit (CPT 99213), 19.7% (our calculation). A line is one provider, one code and one setting with 11 or more Medicare beneficiaries, so the share counts billing providers, not visits.

The largest share in the table is for psychiatric diagnostic evaluations: Nurse Practitioner providers hold 46.7% of the listed lines for CPT 90792 (our calculation). The file does not say which of them are psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioners. For the subsequent annual wellness visit, the yearly Medicare prevention-planning visit, nurse practitioners hold 21.6% of the lines and Family Practice providers 38.8% (42,925 lines CMS) (our calculation). Beneficiary counts in the last column cover every specialty, not nurse practitioners alone, and a patient seen in two settings counts on both rows. None of these counts separates video visits from in-person ones, and services a nurse practitioner bills “incident to” a physician are counted under the physician.

How many nurse practitioners are employed in the U.S., and what do they earn?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated 323,040 wage and salary jobs for nurse practitioners (SOC 29-1171) in the U.S. in May 2025, in its Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) survey of employers (BLS). Their median annual wage was $132,300 (BLS). The job estimate has a relative standard error of 1.2% (BLS). Nurse practitioners have their own BLS occupation code, so the figures in this section are specific to nurse practitioners unless labelled otherwise. OEWS counts jobs that employers report. It leaves out NPs who own their practices and take profits rather than a wage, and it counts jobs, not licensed NPs, so it is a different measure from the licence counts in the profession section above.

The Occupational Outlook Handbook, which also counts the self-employed, puts nurse practitioners at 336,300 U.S. jobs in 2025 (BLS). BLS’s Employment Projections put the self-employed share of those jobs at 1.6% in 2025 (BLS). Both are counts of jobs, not of licensed nurse practitioners.

How is nurse practitioner pay spread?

The mean annual wage for U.S. wage and salary nurse practitioners was $137,300 in May 2025, above the median, per BLS OEWS (BLS). One in ten of these jobs paid less than $101,340 a year (BLS), and one in ten paid more than $174,420 (BLS). None of the May 2025 nurse practitioner wage figures the BLS data service returned was blank or carried a top-coding footnote. They cover wages and salaries only, not practice owners’ profits.

How do nurse practitioner numbers compare with physician assistants and registered nurses?

BLS estimated 1.99 U.S. wage and salary nurse practitioner jobs for every physician assistant job in May 2025 (our calculation). Physician assistants (SOC 29-1071), a separate occupation shown here only as context, held 162,150 U.S. wage and salary jobs (BLS), with a median annual wage of $135,880 (BLS), slightly above the nurse practitioner median. Registered nurses (SOC 29-1141), also a separate occupation, held 3.4 million U.S. wage and salary jobs (3,379,720) (BLS), with a median annual wage of $97,550 (BLS). Nurse practitioner jobs equalled 9.6% of registered nurse jobs (our calculation). Nurse practitioners are registered nurses with graduate training, but OEWS counts each job under one code, so the two counts do not overlap.

Where do nurse practitioners work?

Offices of physicians employed 46.0% of U.S. wage and salary nurse practitioners in May 2025, per BLS OEWS: 148,600 jobs (BLS) (our calculation). General medical and surgical hospitals employed 73,610 (BLS), or 22.8% (our calculation). Outpatient care centers employed 31,590 (BLS), or 9.8% (our calculation), and home health care services 11,600 (BLS).

Offices of other health practitioners (NAICS 6213), the industry group that holds NP-run offices, employed 15,260 wage and salary nurse practitioners (BLS), 4.7% of the total (our calculation). That count leaves out NPs who own their practice and draw no wage. BLS publishes these industry rows for the nation only. The industries that hold NP practices are shared with other professions, as the next section shows.

How many nurse practitioners work in Florida and in the Miami and Port St. Lucie areas, and what do they earn?

BLS estimated 21,790 wage and salary nurse practitioner jobs in Florida in May 2025 (BLS), 6.7% of the U.S. total (our calculation). The Florida estimate has a relative standard error of 8.6% (BLS). Florida’s median annual wage for nurse practitioners was $129,510 (BLS), $2,790 below the U.S. median (our calculation), and its mean was $130,410 (BLS).

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro area, which holds Palm Beach and Broward counties, had 5,810 wage and salary nurse practitioner jobs in May 2025 (BLS), 26.7% of Florida’s (our calculation). That estimate is rough, with a relative standard error of 26.8% (BLS). The area’s median annual wage was $131,340 (BLS) and its mean $136,150 (BLS). BLS publishes no OEWS estimates for the West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Boynton Beach or Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Sunrise metropolitan divisions (its data service returned “Series does not exist”) or for any county.

The Port St. Lucie metro area, which holds Martin and St. Lucie counties, had 410 wage and salary nurse practitioner jobs in May 2025 (BLS), with a relative standard error of 12.1% (BLS). Its location quotient was 1.16 (BLS), meaning nurse practitioners made up a larger share of its wage and salary jobs than nationally. Its median annual wage was $128,770 (BLS) and its mean $130,550 (BLS). BLS released every nurse practitioner measure we requested for Florida and both metro areas; none was suppressed.

For context, BLS estimated 229,940 wage and salary registered nurse jobs (BLS) and 9,310 physician assistant jobs (BLS) in Florida in May 2025. Those are separate occupations, not nurse practitioners. OEWS wage gaps between areas can reflect sampling error and the mix of employers, and BLS advises against comparing OEWS estimates across years.

How fast are nurse practitioner jobs expected to grow?

Nurse practitioners are the fastest-growing occupation in BLS’s Employment Projections for 2025 to 2035: jobs are projected to grow 41.0%, the first row of its table of the 30 fastest-growing occupations (BLS). All U.S. jobs are projected to grow 3.5% (BLS), so the NP rate is 11.7 times as fast (our calculation). Physician assistants, shown as context, are projected to grow 21.1%, the table’s eleventh row (BLS), and registered nurses 5.6% (BLS).

The Occupational Outlook Handbook puts that at 474,100 U.S. nurse practitioner jobs in 2035 (BLS), up from 336,300 in 2025. BLS expects about 29.4 thousand openings a year from 2025 to 2035, from growth and from replacing workers who leave the occupation (BLS). These projections count all nurse practitioner jobs, including the self-employed. The Handbook ties the growth to demand for care from an aging population with more chronic disease, team-based care, and states changing their laws to let advanced practice nurses perform more services. A projection is BLS’s estimate, not a count.

Which industry code holds nurse practitioner practices?

The 2022 North American Industry Classification System index places nurse practitioners’ offices in NAICS 621399, offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners (Census). There is no NAICS code for NP practices alone. The same code holds offices of registered and licensed practical nurses, acupuncturists, midwives, dietitians, dental hygienists, naturopaths, respiratory therapists, hypnotherapists and massage therapists, among others. Every count in this section therefore covers offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners, a code shared with other professions, not NP practices alone. NPs who work in physician offices, hospitals or clinics are counted in those industries instead. Our acupuncture and dietitian pages carry the same shared figures.

How many offices of miscellaneous health practitioners are there in the U.S.?

BLS’s Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), which counts employers covered by unemployment insurance, averaged 43,733 private establishments with employees in NAICS 621399 in the U.S. in 2025 (BLS). Those offices averaged 174,667 jobs, counting all staff and not only practitioners (BLS). This is offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners, a code shared with other professions, not NP practices alone.

Census’s Nonemployer Statistics counted 259,850 U.S. businesses in the same code with no paid staff in 2024 (Census). A nonemployer is any business with no paid employees that files a tax return, which can include part-time or side income, so that count is not a count of full-time practices, and it is not added to the QCEW count.

How has the number of these offices changed since 1998?

County Business Patterns counted 6,673 U.S. employer establishments in NAICS 621399 in 1998, the first year it used the NAICS codes (Census), and 36,107 in 2023 (Census): a rise of 441.1% (our calculation). The count was 12,455 in 2008 (Census) and 23,052 in 2018 (Census); from 2008 to 2023 it rose 189.9% (our calculation).

Florida’s count went from 759 employer establishments in 1998 (Census) to 3,956 in 2023 (Census), up 421.2% (our calculation). These are counts of offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners, a code shared with other professions, not NP practices alone, so the rise cannot be credited to nurse practitioners. Census does not adjust them for changes in its methods over the period, and they leave out offices with no paid staff.

How many of these offices are in Florida and in Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties?

Florida averaged 4,473 private establishments with employees in NAICS 621399 in 2025, per BLS’s QCEW (BLS), 10.2% of the U.S. total (our calculation). Palm Beach, Broward and Martin counties together had 19.7% of Florida’s (our calculation from QCEW annual averages). These are offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners, a code shared with other professions, not NP practices alone.

The three counties held 22.3% of Florida’s nonemployer businesses in the code in 2024 (our calculation). The two columns count different kinds of business in different years and are not added together. Neither BLS nor Census publishes a county count of nurse practitioner practices.

How many of these offices earn money from telemedicine?

6,759 U.S. employer establishments in NAICS 621399 reported some revenue from telemedicine services in 2022, per the 2022 Economic Census (Census): 20.7% of the 32,609 such establishments it counted (Census) (our calculation). The table counts offices with any telemedicine revenue. It does not say how much of their revenue came from it, does not separate video from audio-only care, and covers offices of all other miscellaneous health practitioners, a code shared with other professions, not NP practices alone.

What do telehealth and retail-clinic companies tell investors about nurse practitioners?

Telehealth and retail-clinic companies name nurse practitioners as part of their clinical workforce, but none of the eight we read gives a count of them: CVS Health's fiscal 2025 Form 10-K says its more than 800 MinuteClinic locations are staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants (CVS 10-K). Every company below sells the care it describes, so each figure is the company's own count, not an independent one. We read each company's newest Form 10-K on SEC EDGAR, plus older reports for trends.

MinuteClinic is shrinking. CVS Health ran approximately 1,100 MinuteClinic locations at the end of 2020 (CVS 10-K), more than 1,000 at the end of 2023 (CVS 10-K), more than 900 at the end of 2024 (CVS 10-K) and more than 800 at the end of 2025. That is about 300 fewer locations in five years, using CVS Health's own rounded figures (our calculation). MinuteClinic also offers virtual care services that connect customers with licensed providers remotely (CVS 10-K), and CVS Health names the ability to attract and retain physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other medical personnel as a competitive factor (CVS 10-K).

Who holds the telehealth visit, and how. Hims & Hers says its providers hold telehealth consultations by video, phone and/or store-and-forward technology (Hims & Hers 10-K); store-and-forward means a clinician reviews information the patient sends in, without a live call. In Canada, Hims & Hers says it primarily engages nurse practitioners as independent contractors (Hims & Hers 10-K). Its fiscal 2025 report uses the word “telehealth” 78 times and “video” once (our calculation). Talkspace says its psychiatry packages typically include an initial video consultation and follow-up video appointments (Talkspace 10-K); its clinicians completed 1,617,000 sessions for members covered by health plans and employee assistance programs in fiscal 2025 (Talkspace 10-K), up 31.5% from fiscal 2024 (our calculation). Teladoc says its members conduct a visit via video or phone (Teladoc 10-K).

Psychiatric care. LifeStance's clinicians held approximately 9.0 million visits in 2025, in person and virtually (LifeStance 10-K). LifeStance reported 4,790 employed psychiatrists, advanced practice nurses, psychologists and therapists in its fiscal 2021 report (LifeStance 10-K) and 8,040 clinicians at the end of 2025, up 67.8% (our calculation); neither report splits the count by clinician type. LifeStance says that in 2023 it announced a strategic re-focus and closed certain centers because of a shift to more virtual visits (LifeStance 10-K). Our mental health practice statistics cover Talkspace and LifeStance in more detail.

State practice laws as a risk factor. LifeStance says that in a number of the states where it operates, nurse practitioners must have physician supervisors, in particular to prescribe Schedule II drugs (LifeStance fiscal 2025 10-K). Hims & Hers lists greater restrictions on asynchronous telehealth or on remote supervision of nurse practitioners or physician assistants among the rule changes that could hurt its business (Hims & Hers fiscal 2025 10-K). LifeMD lists rules that limit physicians' ability to supervise nurse practitioners and physician assistants remotely (LifeMD fiscal 2025 10-K). In its fiscal 2021 report, One Medical listed federal and state laws on nurse practitioners and physician assistants, including physician supervision requirements, among the laws it is subject to (1Life 10-K). Walgreens listed recruiting and retaining physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners in competitive markets such as senior-focused care as a factor for its U.S. Healthcare segment, which held VillageMD, in fiscal 2024 (Walgreens 10-K).

Marketing and ownership. Hims & Hers says its customer acquisition costs include advertising in digital media, social media, television, radio and out-of-home media, and exclude content production costs (fiscal 2025) (Hims & Hers 10-K). Amazon bought One Medical on February 22, 2023 for about $3.5 billion in cash, net of cash acquired (Amazon 10-K). Amazon's fiscal 2025 report does not use the phrase “nurse practitioner”, and neither do Talkspace's or Teladoc's: 3 of the eight newest reports we read (our calculation).

How often do annual reports to the SEC mention nurse practitioners?

493 Form 10-K annual reports filed in 2025 contained the phrase “nurse practitioner” or “nurse practitioners”, by our count with SEC EDGAR full-text search (our calculation). From 2001 to 2025 the total was 3,429 filings from 956 companies and other registrants. The yearly count was 19 in 2001 and 57 in 2018, then rose more than ninefold to a peak of 532 in 2022; it stood at 493 in 2025, and 439 more were filed in 2026 through November 10, the day we ran the search. The plural “nurse practitioners” appears in 478 of the 2025 filings. Private practices file nothing with the SEC, so they are not in the count.

Most of the rise comes from drug and device makers, not from companies that employ nurse practitioners. 342 of the 2025 filings came from drug and biotech companies, and 86.0% of all 2025 filings with the phrase also contained the word “Sunshine”, against 15 filings in 2018 (our calculation). Amicus Therapeutics' fiscal 2024 report gives the reason in a typical passage: beginning in 2022, drug and device makers must report payments and transfers of value to physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse anesthetists and certified nurse-midwives under the federal Open Payments program, known as the Sunshine Act (Amicus 10-K).

Video is rare in these filings. 72 of the 2025 filings with a nurse practitioner phrase also contained “video” or “videos”; from 2001 to 2025 the share was 13.8% (our calculation). “Telehealth” appeared beside a nurse practitioner phrase in a peak of 69 filings in 2022, and 9 filings from 2025 pair the phrase with “YouTube”.

We read the passages around the word in all 72 Form 10-K filings filed in 2025 that contain a nurse practitioner phrase and “video” or “videos”, and put each in one class (our calculation):

• Telehealth or video visits: 10, among them Hims & Hers, Talkspace, Privia, Concentra and Doximity.
• Marketing or patient-facing video: 15, most of them medical device and drug makers describing patient education videos, testimonial videos or online video ads.
• Clinical devices, studies or treatments: 11, such as surgical video, a video baby monitor or a video-timed trial endpoint.
• Training or course videos for clinicians, sales staff or students: 7, two of them from online universities.
• Unrelated uses: 29, such as the Video Privacy Protection Act, employee video communications, video games or broadcasting.

45 of those 72 filings also contain “Sunshine”. The search counts exact phrases only, so “NP”, “APRN”, “advanced practice registered nurse” and “advanced practice provider” are not counted, and a filing that pairs “nurse practitioner” with “video” need not link the two. Filing year 2025 mostly means fiscal 2024 reports. The yearly counts, sector splits, filer names and query links are in our counts file, and the class of every filing we read is in our contexts file.

What rules apply to nurse practitioners’ videos and video visits?

In Florida, a nurse practitioner who has logged at least 3,000 clinical practice hours under physician supervision in the past five years can register to practice without a physician protocol, but only in primary care, under s. 464.0123 of the Florida Statutes as read on November 10, 2026 (Florida Statutes). Medicare pays an NP billing under their own number no more than 85 percent of the physician fee schedule amount (42 CFR 414.56). Each rule below is dated and quoted from its own text: Florida’s APRN licensing, autonomous-practice, title, advertising and telehealth statutes, a Board of Nursing rule, Medicare’s NP payment and coverage rules, the federal telehealth and telemedicine-prescribing extensions, HIPAA, the FTC’s Endorsement Guides and YouTube’s health policies. This is a summary of what the texts say, not legal advice, and it takes no side in the scope-of-practice debate. Florida statutes were read on Online Sunshine on November 10, 2026; federal rules on eCFR and the Federal Register the same day.

What does Florida’s APRN law require of nurse practitioners who work with a physician?

Under s. 464.012(3), as read November 10, 2026, a Florida advanced practice registered nurse (APRN) works within an established protocol kept on site at each practice location, unless the APRN is registered for autonomous practice (Florida Statutes). Within that protocol, s. 464.012(4)(a) lists five acts a certified nurse practitioner may perform, among them to monitor and manage patients with stable chronic diseases (Florida Statutes).

The Board of Nursing repeats both limits in its own rule 64B9-4.016. Psychiatric-mental health NPs, aesthetics NPs and other specialty NPs stay under a physician protocol in Florida, because autonomous registration covers primary care only.

What does Florida require for an NP to practice without a physician protocol?

Florida created autonomous APRN practice in 2020, by chapter 2020-9 of the Laws of Florida, and amended it in 2024 (Florida Statutes). As read on November 10, 2026, s. 464.0123 sets these conditions:

• Hours: at least 3,000 clinical practice hours within the five years before registering, practicing under a physician’s supervision (s. 464.0123(1)(c)).
• Coursework: 3 graduate-level semester hours in differential diagnosis and 3 in pharmacology within the past five years (s. 464.0123(1)(d)).
• Insurance: professional liability coverage of at least $100,000 per claim and $300,000 a year in total, or an equal letter of credit (s. 464.0123(2)).
• Scope: autonomous practice only in primary care practice, including family medicine, general pediatrics and general internal medicine (s. 464.0123(3)(a)).
• Surgery: no surgical procedure other than a subcutaneous one (s. 464.0123(3)(c)).
• Disclosure: the APRN must tell each new patient in writing about their qualifications and the nature of autonomous practice, before or during the first visit (s. 464.0123(7)).

The Board of Nursing’s rule 64B9-4.021, effective October 26, 2021, holds autonomous APRNs to the General Standard of Practice: the care that reasonably prudent, similarly situated and licensed APRNs would recognize as acceptable (Florida Administrative Code). The rule measures autonomous APRNs against other APRNs, not against physicians.

What do Florida’s title and advertising rules say about NP videos and ads?

Only a person with a valid Florida APRN license may use the title Advanced Practice Registered Nurse and the abbreviation A.P.R.N., under s. 464.015(8) as read November 10, 2026; a violation is a first-degree misdemeanor (Florida Statutes). Section 456.072(1)(t), which covers every health profession the Department of Health regulates, says any advertisement for health care services that names a practitioner must identify the type of license the practitioner holds (Florida Statutes). The statute does not mention video. The Board can fine up to $10,000 for each count or separate offense under s. 456.072(2)(d) (Florida Statutes).

What does Florida’s telehealth law say about video visits?

Florida’s telehealth statute, s. 456.47, was created by chapter 2019-137, Laws of Florida, and amended in 2020, 2022 and three times in 2023 (Florida Statutes). As read November 10, 2026, it defines telehealth as the use of synchronous or asynchronous telecommunications technology to provide health care services, not including e-mail or fax (Florida Statutes). A telehealth provider whose remote evaluation is enough to diagnose and treat does not have to do a physical examination first (Florida Statutes). Medical records from telehealth, including video, audio, electronic or other records, are confidential (Florida Statutes). A telehealth provider may not prescribe a Schedule II controlled substance by telehealth except to treat a psychiatric disorder, for inpatient hospital treatment, for hospice patients or for nursing home residents (Florida Statutes). The same statute is covered on our psychiatrist video statistics page.

How does Medicare pay and cover nurse practitioners?

Under 42 CFR 414.56(c), as read November 10, 2026, Medicare’s allowed amount for an NP’s services furnished since January 1, 1998 may not exceed 85 percent of the physician fee schedule amount for the same service (eCFR). NP services billed “incident to” a physician are paid under the physician and do not appear as NP claims in Medicare data. An NP who first got Medicare billing privileges on or after January 1, 2003 must hold national NP certification and a master’s degree in nursing or a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree (42 CFR 410.75). Medicare Part B covers NP services in rural and urban areas, but only when the NP works in collaboration with a physician, as the state where the service is given defines collaboration (42 CFR 410.75).

How long do Medicare’s telehealth and DEA’s tele-prescribing flexibilities last?

Section 6209 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026 (Public Law 119-75, approved February 3, 2026) extended Medicare’s telehealth flexibilities, including the patient’s home as an originating site, to the period ending December 31, 2027 (GovInfo). The same law delays Medicare’s in-person visit requirement for mental health telehealth until January 1, 2028, as CMS’s CY 2027 fee schedule final rule of November 9, 2026 describes it (Federal Register). The full run of extensions is on our family medicine video statistics page.

For controlled substances, the Drug Enforcement Administration and HHS extended their COVID-19 telemedicine prescribing flexibilities a fourth time, through December 31, 2026 (Federal Register). Under that temporary rule, DEA-registered practitioners may prescribe Schedule II-V controlled substances by audio-video telemedicine without an in-person evaluation (Federal Register). DEA’s January 2025 proposal for a special telemedicine registration would cover physicians and mid-level practitioners, the DEA class that includes nurse practitioners (Federal Register). A Federal Register search on November 10, 2026 found no final special-registration rule and no fifth extension.

What do HIPAA and the FTC say about patients in NP marketing videos?

HIPAA’s Privacy Rule defines marketing as a communication about a product or service that encourages recipients to buy or use it, with listed exceptions (45 CFR 164.501). A covered practice that bills electronically must obtain an authorization from the patient before using their health information for marketing, except face-to-face communications and promotional gifts of nominal value (45 CFR 164.508). HIPAA’s de-identification standard lists full face photographic images among the identifiers that must be removed, so a recognizable patient in a video is identifiable health information (45 CFR 164.514). All three were read on eCFR on November 10, 2026.

The FTC’s revised Endorsement Guides took effect July 26, 2023 and treat a patient testimonial in an ad as an endorsement (Federal Register). If an advertiser cannot show that a patient’s result is typical, the ad should clearly disclose the generally expected performance (16 CFR 255.2). In a video, a disclosure should appear in both the visual and audible portions (16 CFR 255). The Guides’ own example of a doctor endorsing a drug on weak evidence concludes that both the advertiser and the doctor would be liable (16 CFR 255.3). The example names a doctor.

Can a nurse practitioner become a YouTube health source?

YouTube’s health-source program, as read November 10, 2026, lists five eligible licensed professions, one of them Licensed Nurse / Registered Nurse; nurse practitioners are not a separate category (YouTube Help). The channel needs more than 1,500 valid public watch hours in the last 12 months, or 1.5 million valid public Shorts views in the past 90 days (YouTube Help). Licence checks are coordinated by LegitScript, a third-party partner, and a decision typically takes about 1-2 months (YouTube Help). YouTube says some health videos carry an information panel underneath giving context on the source (YouTube Help). Separately, YouTube’s medical misinformation policy bars content that poses a serious risk of egregious harm by contradicting local health authority (LHA) guidance about specific health conditions and substances (YouTube Help).

What do the popular nurse practitioner numbers really say?

Four claims travel through NP practice websites, association releases, recruiting pages and marketing guides: that NPs give care equal to physicians, that there are “more than 385,000” NPs, that NPs are the fastest-growing occupation, and that video lifts conversions by 80%. We read each at its source and say below what that source measured. Pages that repeat a number are linked only as dated evidence of how it spread, never as a source for the number.

“NPs provide care equal to physicians”

The evidence behind the claim is real, but most of it measures nurses of several kinds working with physician backup, and its costs findings are weak. The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), the NPs’ professional association, which sells memberships and continuing education, says in its January 2026 literature page that Kilpatrick and colleagues (2024) examined 117 systematic reviews (AANP) representing 1,653 original studies (AANP), and found that NP care is “equal to or better” than that of physicians in a range of settings (AANP). The review itself, in PLOS One, retained 117 systematic reviews from around the world (PLOS One, Kilpatrick et al., PubMed) and pooled advanced practice nurses, NPs and clinical nurse specialists. It found their care equal or superior to the comparator, such as physicians, for 29 indicator categories (Kilpatrick et al.), with mixed findings for quality of life, consultations, costs and emergency room visits. The abstract does not give the 1,653 figure.

The 2018 Cochrane review by Laurant and colleagues is the strongest single source. It found 18 randomised trials of nurses working as substitutes for doctors in primary care, all but one in high-income countries (Cochrane, Laurant et al., PubMed). The nursing level was often unclear, and in many trials the nurses could ask a doctor for advice. Its conclusion is that trained nurses, “such as nurse practitioners, practice nurses, and registered nurses”, probably provide “equal or possibly even better” quality of care than primary care doctors for some ongoing and urgent physical complaints and chronic conditions (Laurant et al.). It rated the evidence on costs as very low certainty, so the effect on costs is unknown (Laurant et al.).

The most-cited U.S. trial is Mundinger and colleagues in JAMA (2000). It randomized 1,316 adults with no regular source of care at one New York academic medical center, from 1995 to 1997 (JAMA, Mundinger et al., PubMed); the NP arm was one clinic of 7 nurse practitioners, with the same authority as the physicians (Mundinger et al.). Health status at 6 months did not differ (P = .92) (Mundinger et al.). Newhouse and colleagues’ systematic review in Nursing Economic$ (2011) covered 18 years of published studies, 1990 to 2008, and found NP and nurse-midwife outcomes, for care given in collaboration with physicians, similar to and in some ways better than care by physicians alone (Nurs Econ, Newhouse et al., PubMed). The oldest form we found is the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment’s December 1986 report: “the weight of the evidence” indicated that, within their areas of competence, NPs, physician assistants and certified nurse-midwives provide care of equivalent quality to physicians (OTA, archived). The same page warns that many studies were methodologically flawed and almost none examined care given without physician involvement (OTA, archived).

The physicians’ side cites a different kind of evidence. The American Medical Association (AMA), the physicians’ association, which campaigns against wider NP scope of practice, reported in March 2022 on a study by leaders of Hattiesburg Clinic, a Mississippi physician group, in the Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association. In the clinic’s 2017-2019 Medicare cost data, spending was $43 per member per month higher for patients whose primary clinician was an NP or physician assistant working under physician supervision (AMA), or $119 after risk adjustment (AMA), across more than 33,000 Medicare patients (AMA). It is one clinic’s accountable care organization, with NPs and physician assistants counted together, and the clinic’s chief executive told AMA, “We didn’t set out to do a scientific study per se” (AMA).

Use instead: “A 2018 Cochrane review of 18 randomised trials found nurses substituting for primary care doctors probably give equal or better quality of care for some conditions, with costs uncertain (Laurant et al.).” Name the design and setting; do not extend it to every specialty or to costs.

“There are more than 385,000 nurse practitioners”

It is AANP’s count of NPs licensed in the U.S., and it is out of date. AANP’s NP Fact Sheet has given a new figure most years: more than 248,000 in December 2018 (AANP, archived), 270,000 in November 2019 (AANP, archived), 290,000 in November 2020 (AANP, archived), 325,000 in November 2021 (AANP, archived), 355,000 in August 2022 (AANP, archived) and 385,000 by June 2024 (AANP, archived). The February 2024 sheet names its source as the AANP National Nurse Practitioner Database, 2022 (AANP, archived), while AANP’s November 2023 release dated the same 385,000 to 2023 and called it growth of 8.5% from 355,000 in 2022 (AANP). In November 2024 AANP still said there were more than 385,000 licensed NPs (AANP), and in November 2025 it announced more than 461,000 licensed NPs, with no method or database year given in the release (AANP); AANP published its method in an August 2026 research snapshot, covered in the profession section above.

A licence count is not a count of working NPs: one person can hold licences in several states, and licensed NPs include those not in practice. BLS counts NPs employed in the occupation, and its figure is lower; see the workforce section of this page.

Use instead: “AANP counted more than 461,000 licensed NPs in the U.S. in November 2025 (AANP, the NPs’ association).” Say “licensed”, and use the BLS employment count when the question is how many work as NPs.

“NPs are the fastest-growing occupation”

It is true now, but it was not when AANP first said it. In BLS’s 2025-2035 projections NPs are first, at 41.0%; in the three editions before, NPs ranked second or third. AANP’s November 2023 release said that, according to BLS, NPs “are the fastest-growing jobs in the country” and would grow 45% by 2032 (AANP). In BLS’s 2022-2032 projections NPs were second, at 44.5% (BLS, archived), behind wind turbine service technicians at 44.9% (BLS, archived). AANP’s November 2024 release said NPs “top the list” and would grow more than 46% by 2033 (AANP); BLS’s 2023-2033 table put NPs third, at 46.3% (BLS, archived), after wind turbine service technicians at 60.1% (BLS, archived) and solar photovoltaic installers at 48.0% (BLS, archived). In the 2024-2034 edition NPs were third again, at 40.1% (BLS, archived). Among health care occupations NPs did lead each of these tables. The 2025-2035 table, published in 2026, is the first of the four we read with NPs at the top; it is in the workforce section of this page.

Use instead: “BLS projects NP employment to grow 41.0% from 2025 to 2035, the fastest of any occupation (BLS Employment Projections, 2025-2035).” Name the projection period: for 2024-2034 the same claim was false (third, at 40.1%).

“Video lifts conversions 80%”

The figure is a best case from one video vendor, EyeView, about a client website, not health care. In February 2009 EyeView’s blog said viewers of its videos for one client, UMOO, were 80% more likely to become depositing users, comparing viewers with non-viewers (EyeView, archived), which does not test what adding a video does. By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that a study by eyeviewdigital.com showed video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80% (Unbounce, archived). Healthcare marketing carried it on with other names attached: a March 2018 Practice Builders guide for healthcare practices credits Hyperfine Media, a video agency, for landing-page video lifting conversion rates by 80 percent (Practice Builders), and a July 2026 Web Tonic page for health and wellness brands says video on healthcare landing pages lifts conversions by up to 80%, crediting WifiTalents, a statistics aggregator (Web Tonic). Both firms sell marketing.

The larger later evidence points the other way. Unbounce’s own 2021 analysis of about 35,000 customer landing pages in each of three periods (Unbounce) concluded that video appears to have a minimal or negative impact on landing-page performance (Unbounce). Its April 2025 article of landing-page examples still says landing pages with video can increase conversions by 80% (Unbounce). We found no conversion test by an NP practice. Use instead: “Unbounce’s 2021 study of about 35,000 landing pages per period found video had a minimal or negative effect; we found no conversion test by a nurse practitioner practice.”

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 881 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about nurse practitioner video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 446 figures from 41 publishers.

On November 10, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (through the BLS data API and data files) and Employment Projections and Occupational Outlook pages (through Internet Archive copies, because bls.gov refuses automated requests); Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API); Medicare Part B figures through data.cms.gov, within its stated crawl delay; the American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ own releases and fact sheets (archived copies where the live page is gone); the Florida Department of Health’s licensure annual reports and the Florida Center for Nursing; the Florida Statutes, Florida Administrative Code, eCFR, GovInfo and the Federal Register; YouTube Help pages; SEC filings on EDGAR; and journal abstracts (PubMed records re-read through NCBI’s E-utilities, because the pages answer scripts with a bot check). Our YouTube figures come from the YouTube Data API, our Medicare totals from CMS’s public files, and our filing counts from EDGAR full-text search. We left out sources whose robots rules bar AI agents, among them data.hrsa.gov, the Commonwealth Fund and AHRQ, and read Health Affairs, JAMA and Annals of Internal Medicine papers only through their PubMed abstracts. We left out sources whose own terms bar automated collection or restrict use beyond generic copyright: the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (personal, noncommercial use only, and no linking without consent), the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board and the American Nurses Association and its credentialing center (their terms bar robots and scrapers), and Issuu, where the Florida Center for Nursing posts its newest licensure report. Florida’s licence data download needs a login, so there are no county counts of Florida nurse practitioners from the state. Medical subject matter is reported as each source states it. Nothing here is medical advice.

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

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Limitations

• No single count of nurse practitioners exists. AANP counts actively licensed NPs from state board files, BLS counts wage and salary jobs (its Occupational Outlook Handbook adds the self-employed), CMS counts providers who billed original Medicare under the ‘Nurse Practitioner’ type, and Florida counts APRN licences, which include nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists and clinical nurse specialists. They differ, and we print them side by side rather than choose one.
• Medicare is one slice of NP work. Original Medicare covers mostly people 65 and older and people with disabilities. The Part B file has no Medicare Advantage, no Medicaid and no private insurance, drops providers with fewer than 11 patients, cannot separate video visits from office visits, and has one ‘Nurse Practitioner’ type for every specialty. NPs who bill “incident to” a physician appear under the physician. Payment comparisons are before inflation.
• BLS has no NP figures below the metro level. OEWS publishes no West Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale division series and no county figures, and its Miami-area job estimate has a 26.8% relative standard error. NAICS 621399 holds nurse practitioners’ offices together with many other professions, so its establishment counts are not NP practices alone.
• AANP is an interested party. It is the NPs’ professional association, sells memberships, conferences and reports, and campaigns for wider practice rights. Its licence count, survey shares and visit claims are its own; its visit claim has no published method.
• Studies differ in design and side. NP-versus-physician studies use different populations (veterans, Medicare, nursing home residents), periods and outcomes, and both associations publish selectively. We report what each study measured and promise nothing about any clinician, test, treatment or practice.
• Our YouTube read follows YouTube’s ranking. The 498 videos are what YouTube’s search returned for three terms (the top 200 results of each, sorted by views, with no country filter) on November 10, 2026. It is not a census of NP video. View counts are lifetime snapshots, and we sorted 229 channels by hand from their public text; licences were not checked. Students’ personal vlogs, patient and family stories and children are published only as a class and counts, so some views cannot be recomputed from the public CSV.
• Filings count words. EDGAR full-text search finds a phrase, not a topic, and since 2022 much of the rise comes from Sunshine Act boilerplate. We read the passages around the word only in the 72 filings from 2025 that also mention video.
• Rules are dated. Statutes and rules are reported as we read them on November 10, 2026. Medicare’s telehealth flexibilities run through December 31, 2027 and DEA’s telemedicine prescribing flexibilities through December 31, 2026 unless extended again. This is not legal advice. Every “earliest we found” in the origins section rests on web pages, PubMed and the Internet Archive; newspaper databases were not searched.

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