the gap between the best and worst covered state for psychiatric care
District of Columbia has one psychiatric prescriber for every 958 residents. Oklahoma has one for every 4,982.
Psychiatric prescribers per 100,000 residents — the eight lowest states
Coverage does not redistribute, it compounds. The states with the fewest psychiatrists mostly have the fewest psychiatric nurse practitioners too, so the professions that were supposed to fill the gap have largely filled it where it was already smallest.
Best covered
| State | Per 100k | People per prescriber | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 20.1 | 4,982 | 822 |
| Alabama | 20.5 | 4,875 | 1,058 |
| Indiana | 23.2 | 4,314 | 1,605 |
| Idaho | 23.9 | 4,179 | 479 |
| West Virginia | 24.6 | 4,069 | 435 |
| Georgia | 25 | 4,006 | 2,791 |
| Texas | 25.3 | 3,946 | 7,930 |
| Arkansas | 25.9 | 3,856 | 801 |
How this was built
Counts are individual providers with a psychiatric taxonomy and a practice address in that state. Population is the US Census Bureau's most recent state estimate.
A practice address is not a licence. A clinician practising by video may be licensed in several states and is counted only in the one where their office is, which understates coverage in states served largely by telehealth — probably the rural ones at the bottom of this chart.
Records flagged inactive are excluded, but the registry has no retirement field, so some of these people no longer practise.
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