Addiction Psychiatry Physician vs Psychiatry Physician

Psychiatry Physician has 84.5 times as many registry records as Addiction Psychiatry Physician: 58,027 against 687. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Addiction Psychiatry Physician: 687 records in 49 states

New York95
California73
Florida40
Texas34
Massachusetts33

Addiction Psychiatry Physician nationwide →

Psychiatry Physician: 58,027 records in 56 states

California8,673
New York6,589
Texas3,318
Florida2,744
Massachusetts2,736

Psychiatry Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Addiction Psychiatry Physician	Psychiatry Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	73	8,673	0.2	22.3
New York	95	6,589	0.5	33.7
Texas	34	3,318	0.1	10.9
Florida	40	2,744	0.2	12.1
Massachusetts	33	2,736	0.5	39.1
Pennsylvania	29	2,662	0.2	20.5
Illinois	19	2,147	0.2	17.1
Michigan	18	1,729	0.2	17.2
North Carolina	14	1,725	0.1	15.9
Ohio	24	1,587	0.2	13.5
New Jersey	17	1,520	0.2	16.4
Maryland	24	1,451	0.4	23.5
Virginia	14	1,395	0.2	16.1
Georgia	31	1,291	0.3	11.7
Washington	21	1,195	0.3	15.3
Connecticut	30	1,174	0.8	32.5
Colorado	16	990	0.3	16.8
Minnesota	7	974	0.1	17.0
Missouri	4	965	0.1	15.6
Arizona	15	942	0.2	12.7
Wisconsin	7	929	0.1	15.7
South Carolina	6	891	0.1	16.6
Oregon	2	764	0.0	18.0
Tennessee	10	731	0.1	10.3
Indiana	12	672	0.2	9.8
Louisiana	7	583	0.2	12.7
Alabama	3	517	0.1	10.1
Kentucky	3	503	0.1	11.1
District of Columbia	7	474	1.0	69.8
Oklahoma	0	463	0.0	11.4
Kansas	2	410	0.1	13.9
Iowa	2	398	0.1	12.4
Rhode Island	1	383	0.1	34.9
Utah	5	373	0.1	10.9
Hawaii	5	331	0.3	23.1
Arkansas	4	329	0.1	10.7
Maine	5	326	0.4	23.4
Nevada	2	316	0.1	9.9
New Mexico	10	300	0.5	14.2
Mississippi	3	272	0.1	9.3
New Hampshire	4	263	0.3	18.8
Nebraska	1	260	0.1	13.1
West Virginia	9	238	0.5	13.4
Vermont	2	203	0.3	31.4
Idaho	2	164	0.1	8.3
Delaware	1	162	0.1	15.7
Montana	4	156	0.4	13.8
Alaska	0	122	0.0	16.6
South Dakota	4	112	0.4	12.2
North Dakota	0	108	0.0	13.8
Wyoming	1	46	0.2	7.9

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Addiction Psychiatry Physician providers are there vs Psychiatry Physician?

There are 687 Addiction Psychiatry Physician and 58,027 Psychiatry Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Psychiatry Physician has records in 56 states and territories, against 49.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

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 the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.