Anesthesiology Physician vs Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician

Anesthesiology Physician has 30.1 times as many registry records as Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician: 60,555 against 2,011. 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

Anesthesiology Physician: 60,555 records in 56 states

California7,571
New York5,062
Texas4,635
Florida3,375
Illinois2,575

Anesthesiology Physician nationwide →

Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician: 2,011 records in 48 states

California240
Ohio213
Texas160
Pennsylvania145
Florida130

Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Anesthesiology Physician	Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	7,571	240	19.4	0.6
New York	5,062	64	25.9	0.3
Texas	4,635	160	15.2	0.5
Florida	3,375	130	14.9	0.6
Pennsylvania	2,481	145	19.1	1.1
Illinois	2,575	49	20.5	0.4
Ohio	2,068	213	17.5	1.8
Massachusetts	2,089	65	29.8	0.9
Washington	1,701	75	21.8	1.0
Michigan	1,720	30	17.1	0.3
New Jersey	1,714	25	18.4	0.3
Arizona	1,473	54	19.8	0.7
North Carolina	1,482	15	13.7	0.1
Virginia	1,453	22	16.8	0.3
Indiana	1,448	25	21.1	0.4
Georgia	1,410	29	12.8	0.3
Wisconsin	1,313	34	22.2	0.6
Colorado	1,202	98	20.5	1.7
Maryland	1,253	21	20.3	0.3
Missouri	1,153	97	18.6	1.6
Minnesota	1,042	11	18.2	0.2
Tennessee	971	57	13.6	0.8
Oregon	969	28	22.9	0.7
South Carolina	787	30	14.6	0.6
Connecticut	797	19	22.0	0.5
Utah	670	17	19.6	0.5
Kentucky	635	33	14.0	0.7
Louisiana	623	13	13.6	0.3
Oklahoma	611	23	15.1	0.6
Alabama	581	13	11.4	0.3
Iowa	569	17	17.7	0.5
Nevada	536	5	16.8	0.2
Kansas	468	7	15.9	0.2
Arkansas	390	20	12.7	0.7
Nebraska	364	18	18.4	0.9
District of Columbia	317	47	46.7	6.9
Mississippi	320	6	10.9	0.2
New Hampshire	304	2	21.7	0.1
Maine	280	1	20.1	0.1
New Mexico	269	8	12.7	0.4
West Virginia	239	4	13.5	0.2
Hawaii	231	4	16.1	0.3
Montana	227	2	20.0	0.2
Rhode Island	168	0	15.3	0.0
Delaware	124	26	12.0	2.5
Vermont	135	0	20.9	0.0
Alaska	130	2	17.7	0.3
Idaho	121	3	6.2	0.2
North Dakota	105	0	13.4	0.0
South Dakota	96	0	10.4	0.0
Wyoming	83	1	14.2	0.2

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

Common questions

How many Anesthesiology Physician providers are there vs Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician?

There are 60,555 Anesthesiology Physician and 2,011 Pediatric Anesthesiology Physician records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Anesthesiology Physician has records in 56 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.