Doctors and health care providers in Columbus, GA
5,517 individual NPPES records list a practice address in Columbus, 5th of 336 Georgia cities. The largest group is behavior technician: 975, 18% of the city's records, against 7% across Georgia. Page 111 of 111.
The 8 largest groups in Columbus
Source: CMS NPPES primary taxonomy, file of Aug 9, 2026.
Columbus in Georgia
- Rank in Georgia5th of 336 cities by records
- Share of the state3.3% of Georgia's records
- Specialties present25 or more taxonomy codes
- Top three groups29.9% of all records
- Behavior Technician rank2nd of the 10 Georgia cities with the most
Compared with Georgia as a whole, Columbus has 19.5× the state's share of community health worker records and 0.41× its share of internal medicine physician records.
Providers in Columbus, alphabetically
- Sylvia YoungCommunity Health Worker1639455496
- Tishon YoungFamily Nurse Practitioner1356175053
- Leigh Youngblood - West, MSN, NP-CRegistered Nurse1003092834
- Carol Youngstrom, FNP-CFamily Nurse Practitioner1760809248
- Kirstyn Yountz, BCBABehavior Analyst1508452293
- Tara Youson, CNANurse's Aide1922961010
- Rachel Zaccagnino, LCSWA, QPSocial Worker1124465935
- Amber Zafar, M.D.Family Medicine Physician1518151075
- Nadiya Zafar, MDCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician1598409732
- Saeed Zafar, M.D.Specialist1386671659
- Aafke Zaffke, PTPhysical Therapist1134544984
- Joseph Zanga, M.D.Pediatrics Physician1508849225
- Zharia ZeiglerBehavior Technician1285527861
- Luyang Zhang, RPHPharmacist1043677149
- Deborah Ziglor Jones, LSWSocial Worker1205755303
- Emma ZipfBehavior Technician1265239917
- Mark Zwickey, DMDOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)1982728721
How to read this directory
Columbus, Georgia appears in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System with 5,517 registered healthcare providers spanning 25 or more distinct NUCC-taxonomy specialties. This count includes every individual clinician who has applied for an NPI and listed a practice address in Columbus - physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, chiropractors, physical therapists, optometrists, psychologists, podiatrists, and every other credentialed provider type CMS tracks. It does not measure hospital beds, urgent-care capacity, or whether a given clinic is accepting new patients; it measures the pool of professionals with current NPI enrollment and a Columbus practice location on file. Every figure is drawn from the federal National Provider Identifier Registry (CMS NPPES) - more than 7 million providers, maintained since May 2007, with 2024 Medicare Part D data, and, according to CMS, can be searched, compared, and traced in our methodology.
The provider mix in Columbus is weighted toward Behavior Technician (975 clinicians, followed by Social Worker with 359 and Community Health Worker with 317). That distribution reflects how NPPES records specialty: providers self-select a primary taxonomy code, so a family physician who also practices geriatrics will show up under whichever NUCC code they registered first. Relative to Georgia's population, Columbus reports roughly 50 providers per 100,000 residents using the state-level denominator, which is a rough proxy rather than a precise access-to-care measurement; the true catchment area of any {cityName} clinician extends beyond the municipal boundary.
For Columbus patients, this directory is most useful as a starting shortlist. Important: PlainDoctor is a directory of publicly available CMS government data, not a review site, a ranking, or medical advice. NPPES data is self-reported and refreshed monthly; call the practice directly to confirm the provider is still there, accepts your insurance, and is taking new patients.
For informational purposes only; this directory is not medical advice and not a substitute for checking a license. See also: how to find a doctor and how to verify one.
Common questions
How many doctors are in Columbus, GA?
There are 5,517 registered healthcare providers in Columbus, GA, covering 25 or more specialties. This includes physicians, dentists, therapists, and other licensed providers.
What are the most common medical specialties in Columbus?
The most common specialties in Columbus are Behavior Technician, Social Worker, Community Health Worker, Family Nurse Practitioner, Pharmacist. Behavior Technician has the most providers with 975.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov). Records are self-reported registrations, not licenses.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.