Understanding Available Data Sources to Estimate the Size and Distribution of Community Health Workers in the United States

Product: Manuscript published in Medical Care Research and Review

Authors: Brianna Lombardi, Brooke Lombardi, Evan Galloway, Lisa de Saxe Zerden

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are an important workforce for health systems to achieve health equity and reduce health disparities in vulnerable communities. This study used the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) to understand the growth of CHWs with a National Provider Identifier (NPI) over the past ten years and examined characteristics of CHWs with NPIs including geographic location, setting type, and if the CHWs have additional taxonomy accreditations.