Aerospace Medicine Physician vs Occupational Medicine Physician

Occupational Medicine Physician has 5.0 times as many registry records as Aerospace Medicine Physician: 2,580 against 518. 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

Aerospace Medicine Physician: 518 records in 48 states

Texas69
Florida56
California43
Ohio34
Virginia33

Aerospace Medicine Physician nationwide →

Occupational Medicine Physician: 2,580 records in 52 states

California415
Texas168
Ohio109
Pennsylvania103
Washington102

Occupational Medicine Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Aerospace Medicine Physician	Occupational Medicine Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	43	415	0.1	1.1
Texas	69	168	0.2	0.6
Florida	56	91	0.2	0.4
Ohio	34	109	0.3	0.9
Washington	21	102	0.3	1.3
Colorado	25	93	0.4	1.6
Pennsylvania	4	103	0.0	0.8
Michigan	4	90	0.0	0.9
Virginia	33	58	0.4	0.7
Illinois	9	80	0.1	0.6
Maryland	14	69	0.2	1.1
New York	1	78	0.0	0.4
Georgia	20	56	0.2	0.5
Minnesota	3	69	0.1	1.2
Wisconsin	0	71	0.0	1.2
Arizona	10	56	0.1	0.8
Missouri	5	56	0.1	0.9
Indiana	2	54	0.0	0.8
Massachusetts	1	54	0.0	0.8
Alabama	29	25	0.6	0.5
North Carolina	18	36	0.2	0.3
New Jersey	6	47	0.1	0.5
Utah	3	42	0.1	1.2
Tennessee	3	40	0.0	0.6
Connecticut	1	40	0.0	1.1
Nevada	14	27	0.4	0.8
South Carolina	5	35	0.1	0.7
Iowa	1	38	0.0	1.2
Oklahoma	7	28	0.2	0.7
New Mexico	11	22	0.5	1.0
Oregon	0	31	0.0	0.7
Kentucky	3	26	0.1	0.6
West Virginia	0	28	0.0	1.6
Hawaii	9	18	0.6	1.3
District of Columbia	10	17	1.5	2.5
Louisiana	4	19	0.1	0.4
Kansas	3	18	0.1	0.6
Maine	1	20	0.1	1.4
Alaska	12	7	1.6	1.0
Idaho	2	14	0.1	0.7
Mississippi	4	12	0.1	0.4
New Hampshire	1	15	0.1	1.1
Arkansas	1	11	0.0	0.4
North Dakota	5	6	0.6	0.8
Rhode Island	0	10	0.0	0.9
South Dakota	3	5	0.3	0.5
Delaware	1	6	0.1	0.6
Montana	1	6	0.1	0.5
Nebraska	3	4	0.2	0.2
Vermont	0	2	0.0	0.3
Wyoming	1	0	0.2	0.0

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

Common questions

How many Aerospace Medicine Physician providers are there vs Occupational Medicine Physician?

There are 518 Aerospace Medicine Physician and 2,580 Occupational Medicine Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Occupational Medicine Physician has records in 52 states and territories, against 48.

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.