Doctors in Gainesville, GA
Active healthcare providers in Gainesville sourced from the CMS NPPES weekly file, no proprietary ratings, no editorial scores. NPI counts, specialty distribution, and primary practice addresses refreshed each release.
Where this city sits in the corpus
Gainesville ranks 11th among 336 Georgia cities by CMS provider count, holding 1.8% of the state's NPIs, led by Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program.
- 2,998
- NPPES providers in city
- 11th
- of 336 GA cities
- 1.8%
- of Georgia providers
- 20.5%
- in top 3 specialties
Gainesville ranks #6 of 10 Georgia cities for Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program.
Where Gainesville ranks among Georgia cities
Provider count vs every Georgia city in CMS NPPES (336 cities)
2,998 Top 3% higher than 97% of 336 cities
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Source CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) · 2026
Specialty mix in Gainesville
Share of the city's NPPES registrations by NUCC taxonomy
- Student in an Organi…
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program
318 providers
- Internal Medicine Ph…
Internal Medicine Physician
155 providers
- Family Nurse Practit…
Family Nurse Practitioner
141 providers
- Physician Assistant
Physician Assistant
132 providers
- Physical Therapist 112
Physical Therapist
112 providers
- Anesthesiologist Ass… 94
Anesthesiologist Assistant
94 providers
- Pharmacist 90
Pharmacist
90 providers
- Behavior Technician 68
Behavior Technician
68 providers
- Speech-Language Path… 64
Speech-Language Pathologist
64 providers
- Occupational Therapist 61
Occupational Therapist
61 providers
What this shows Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program is the largest specialty (318 providers, 10.6% of the city), followed by Internal Medicine Physician.
City vs state specialty index
Specialties Gainesville has more, and fewer, of than Georgia average
Each multiple is this city's share of a specialty divided by that specialty's average share across Georgia , Gainesville over-indexes anesthesiologist assistant at 3.6× the state average and under-indexes behavior technician at 0.30×. This reflects local practice structure, not care quality.
More common here than Georgia average
Less common here than Georgia average
- Behavior Technician 0.30×
- Professional Counselor 0.54×
- Pharmacist 0.60×
- Family Medicine Physician 0.70×
How to read this directory & data limitations
Gainesville, Georgia appears in the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System with 2,998 registered healthcare providers spanning 20 distinct NUCC-taxonomy specialties. This count includes every individual clinician who has applied for an NPI and listed a practice address in Gainesville - 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 Gainesville 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 Gainesville is weighted toward Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program (318 clinicians, followed by Internal Medicine Physician with 155 and Family Nurse Practitioner with 141). 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, Gainesville reports roughly 27.2 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.
Of Georgia's most common specialties, Mental Health Counselor is the most prominent one with no provider currently listing a Gainesville practice address, a coverage gap Gainesville patients typically fill by traveling to a larger nearby hub.
For Gainesville 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.
Which specialties are most common in Gainesville
| # | Specialty | Providers | % of city |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program | 318 | 10.6% |
| 2 | Internal Medicine Physician | 155 | 5.2% |
| 3 | Family Nurse Practitioner | 141 | 4.7% |
| 4 | Physician Assistant | 132 | 4.4% |
| 5 | Physical Therapist | 112 | 3.7% |
| 6 | Anesthesiologist Assistant | 94 | 3.1% |
| 7 | Pharmacist | 90 | 3.0% |
| 8 | Behavior Technician | 68 | 2.3% |
| 9 | Speech-Language Pathologist | 64 | 2.1% |
| 10 | Occupational Therapist | 61 | 2.0% |
| 11 | Professional Counselor | 59 | 2.0% |
| 12 | Nurse Practitioner | 58 | 1.9% |
| 13 | Acute Care Nurse Practitioner | 55 | 1.8% |
| 14 | Anesthesiology Physician | 53 | 1.8% |
| 15 | Medical Physician Assistant | 51 | 1.7% |
Healthcare Providers
| Name |
|---|
| Raza Abbas, M.D. Interventional Cardiology Physician |
| Elia Abboud, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician |
| Eihab Abdelfatah, M.D. Surgical Oncology Physician |
| Eltigani Abdelhai, MD Internal Medicine Physician |
| Ahmad Abdussalam, MD Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician |
| Sonia Abel, LPC Professional Counselor |
| Ed Abell, M. D. Plastic Surgery Physician |
| Mohamed Abidian, MD Nephrology Physician |
| Omar Abu-Alrub, AGACNP Registered Nurse |
| Taylor Abu-Alrub, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant |
| Grace Acero-Smith, MSN FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner |
| William Ackerman, M.D. Ophthalmology Physician |
| Giancarlo Acosta, M.D. Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Physician |
| Walter Adair Hearing Instrument Specialist |
| Brian Adams, MD Interventional Pain Medicine Physician |
| Katherine Adams Behavior Analyst |
| Madison Adams Behavior Technician |
| Richard Adams, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Jennifer Adamski, ARNP,ACNP-BC Critical Care Medicine Nurse Practitioner |
| John Adamski, M.D. Surgery Physician |
| David Adamson, PT Physical Therapist |
| Joanna Addison, AGACNP-BC Acute Care Nurse Practitioner |
| Jolaade Adebayo, M.D. Interventional Pain Medicine Physician |
| Deborah Adebisi, NP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner |
| Jee Young Adelaar Pharmacist |
| Bradee Aderholt, AGACNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner |
| Adeoluwa Adewuyi, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Santhi Adigopula, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician |
| Keith Adkins, ANP-BC Adult Health Nurse Practitioner |
| Lisa Adolf, SLP Speech-Language Pathologist |
| Folatomi Agbe-Davies, M.D. Nephrology Physician |
| Olanrewaju Agbe-Davies, MD Neurology Physician |
| Deepak Aggarwal, M.D. Nephrology Physician |
| Chinelo Aghaji Mental Health Counselor |
| David Agnew, AAC Anesthesiologist Assistant |
| Neha Agrawal Diagnostic Radiology Physician |
| Abigail Aguilera Behavior Technician |
| Amanda Aguirre-Johnson Medical Physician Assistant |
| Hadia Ahmad, MD Internal Medicine Physician |
| Moaz Ahmad, M.D. Internal Medicine Physician |
| Mudassar Ahmed, MBBS Cardiovascular Disease Physician |
| Nayab Ahmed, M.D. Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Sana Ahmed Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Joon Ahn, MD Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician |
| Ange Ahoussougbemey Mele, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Laura Aiken, LPC Mental Health Counselor |
| Linda Akbarshahi Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Muhammad Adeel Akhtar, MD Internal Medicine Physician |
| Chinazo Akpu, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program |
| Riyadh Al-Rubaye, MD Internal Medicine Physician |
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