Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician vs Orthopaedic Surgery Physician

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician has 18.0 times as many registry records as Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician: 24,923 against 1,387. 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

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician: 1,387 records in 51 states

California147
New York107
Florida105
Texas96
Illinois78

Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician nationwide →

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician: 24,923 records in 56 states

California2,276
Texas1,514
Florida1,470
New York1,339
Pennsylvania1,253

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician	Orthopaedic Surgery Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	147	2,276	0.4	5.8
Texas	96	1,514	0.3	5.0
Florida	105	1,470	0.5	6.5
New York	107	1,339	0.5	6.8
Pennsylvania	59	1,253	0.5	9.7
Illinois	78	995	0.6	7.9
Michigan	38	962	0.4	9.6
North Carolina	20	977	0.2	9.0
Ohio	59	921	0.5	7.8
Georgia	23	753	0.2	6.8
New Jersey	41	690	0.4	7.4
Massachusetts	34	692	0.5	9.9
Washington	15	656	0.2	8.4
Minnesota	19	647	0.3	11.3
Wisconsin	8	656	0.1	11.1
Virginia	61	586	0.7	6.8
Missouri	36	514	0.6	8.3
Indiana	20	491	0.3	7.2
Arizona	48	462	0.6	6.2
Colorado	36	471	0.6	8.0
Maryland	36	457	0.6	7.4
Tennessee	24	467	0.3	6.6
South Carolina	33	365	0.6	6.8
Kentucky	8	364	0.2	8.0
Connecticut	18	348	0.5	9.6
Oregon	22	335	0.5	7.9
Alabama	10	340	0.2	6.7
Louisiana	6	336	0.1	7.3
Oklahoma	18	302	0.4	7.4
Utah	22	266	0.6	7.8
Iowa	12	257	0.4	8.0
Kansas	15	226	0.5	7.7
Arkansas	12	205	0.4	6.7
Mississippi	8	197	0.3	6.7
New Hampshire	11	174	0.8	12.4
Nevada	17	164	0.5	5.1
Nebraska	1	177	0.1	8.9
Maine	11	165	0.8	11.8
Idaho	6	162	0.3	8.2
New Mexico	6	141	0.3	6.7
Rhode Island	3	138	0.3	12.6
West Virginia	5	126	0.3	7.1
South Dakota	3	113	0.3	12.3
Hawaii	5	107	0.3	7.5
Montana	4	105	0.4	9.3
Wyoming	2	91	0.3	15.6
Alaska	1	83	0.1	11.3
Delaware	5	76	0.5	7.4
North Dakota	0	74	0.0	9.4
District of Columbia	4	60	0.6	8.8
Vermont	1	52	0.2	8.0

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

Common questions

How many Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician providers are there vs Orthopaedic Surgery Physician?

There are 1,387 Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician and 24,923 Orthopaedic Surgery Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Orthopaedic Surgery Physician has records in 56 states and territories, against 51.

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.