Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist vs Optometrist

Optometrist has 53.3 times as many registry records as Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist: 62,682 against 1,177. 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

Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist: 1,177 records in 52 states

California161
Texas112
New York82
Florida75
Pennsylvania55

Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist nationwide →

Optometrist: 62,682 records in 56 states

California8,308
Texas5,006
Florida3,594
New York3,535
Illinois2,697

Optometrist nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist	Optometrist	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	161	8,308	0.4	21.3
Texas	112	5,006	0.4	16.4
Florida	75	3,594	0.3	15.9
New York	82	3,535	0.4	18.1
Illinois	39	2,697	0.3	21.5
Pennsylvania	55	2,640	0.4	20.4
Ohio	52	2,443	0.4	20.7
Michigan	21	1,963	0.2	19.6
Washington	36	1,641	0.5	21.0
Indiana	24	1,578	0.3	23.0
New Jersey	49	1,542	0.5	16.6
Massachusetts	31	1,501	0.4	21.4
North Carolina	19	1,480	0.2	13.7
Virginia	27	1,460	0.3	16.9
Georgia	38	1,430	0.3	13.0
Arizona	12	1,336	0.2	18.0
Tennessee	23	1,300	0.3	18.2
Colorado	38	1,273	0.6	21.7
Missouri	27	1,242	0.4	20.0
Minnesota	38	1,142	0.7	19.9
Wisconsin	14	1,161	0.2	19.6
Oregon	10	944	0.2	22.3
Maryland	17	924	0.3	15.0
Oklahoma	10	892	0.2	22.0
Alabama	9	874	0.2	17.1
Kentucky	9	803	0.2	17.7
South Carolina	12	749	0.2	13.9
Kansas	8	715	0.3	24.3
Connecticut	14	675	0.4	18.7
Iowa	5	676	0.2	21.1
Nevada	6	550	0.2	17.2
Louisiana	5	540	0.1	11.8
Arkansas	9	531	0.3	17.3
Utah	9	470	0.3	13.8
Nebraska	3	452	0.2	22.8
Mississippi	4	412	0.1	14.0
Idaho	12	369	0.6	18.8
Hawaii	1	353	0.1	24.6
New Mexico	5	333	0.2	15.7
Maine	6	310	0.4	22.2
New Hampshire	2	293	0.1	20.9
West Virginia	7	271	0.4	15.3
Rhode Island	1	267	0.1	24.4
Montana	5	245	0.4	21.6
South Dakota	3	245	0.3	26.7
North Dakota	5	236	0.6	30.1
Alaska	2	198	0.3	27.0
Delaware	1	164	0.1	15.9
Wyoming	5	147	0.9	25.2
Vermont	6	134	0.9	20.7
District of Columbia	4	100	0.6	14.7

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

Common questions

How many Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist providers are there vs Optometrist?

There are 1,177 Corneal and Contact Management Optometrist and 62,682 Optometrist records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Optometrist has records in 56 states and territories, against 52.

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.