Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Fort Collins, CO
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Fort Collins, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Fort Collins, CO area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.
Provider supply
Who practices in Fort Collins today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Fort Collins, CO area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
1,200
Physicians
399
Nurse practitioners
351
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Fort Collins metro added 28 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 3 physicians, and 4 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Colorado side of the Fort Collins metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Fort Collins-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
2,525 employed, up 124.3% year over year. Average wages up 9.6% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
11,129 employed across 1,143 sites.
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See Colorado pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
23 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Fort Collins area.
0 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
Tell us about the opening
Hiring in Fort Collins?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the local market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.