Critical Care Pharmacist vs Pharmacist

Pharmacist has 401.8 times as many registry records as Critical Care Pharmacist: 292,480 against 728. 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

Critical Care Pharmacist: 728 records in 49 states

California75
Florida59
Ohio52
Texas49
Pennsylvania30

Critical Care Pharmacist nationwide →

Pharmacist: 292,480 records in 56 states

California32,533
New York22,962
Florida19,422
Texas18,541
Pennsylvania13,059

Pharmacist nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Critical Care Pharmacist	Pharmacist	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	75	32,533	0.2	83.5
New York	28	22,962	0.1	117.3
Florida	59	19,422	0.3	85.9
Texas	49	18,541	0.2	60.8
Pennsylvania	30	13,059	0.2	100.8
Ohio	52	10,831	0.4	91.9
Illinois	20	9,744	0.2	77.6
North Carolina	21	9,625	0.2	88.8
Michigan	10	8,370	0.1	83.4
Georgia	26	8,291	0.2	75.2
New Jersey	15	8,209	0.2	88.4
Washington	12	7,777	0.2	99.5
Tennessee	24	7,226	0.3	101.4
Arizona	8	6,746	0.1	90.8
Virginia	19	6,584	0.2	76.2
Massachusetts	15	5,932	0.2	84.7
Maryland	19	5,562	0.3	90.0
Wisconsin	5	5,397	0.1	91.3
Missouri	11	5,343	0.2	86.2
South Carolina	15	5,196	0.3	96.7
Indiana	10	5,116	0.1	74.6
Minnesota	16	4,914	0.3	85.6
Louisiana	7	4,623	0.2	101.1
Alabama	11	4,531	0.2	88.7
Colorado	21	4,381	0.4	74.5
Kentucky	17	4,129	0.4	91.2
Oregon	18	3,571	0.4	84.4
Oklahoma	4	3,344	0.1	82.5
Connecticut	16	3,247	0.4	89.8
Iowa	5	3,179	0.2	99.1
Arkansas	6	2,900	0.2	94.5
Kansas	7	2,581	0.2	87.8
West Virginia	8	2,283	0.5	129.0
Mississippi	5	2,236	0.2	76.1
Nevada	10	2,090	0.3	65.4
Utah	5	1,986	0.1	58.1
New Mexico	8	1,961	0.4	92.7
Nebraska	7	1,815	0.4	91.7
Idaho	4	1,763	0.2	89.7
Maine	0	1,372	0.0	98.3
New Hampshire	2	1,286	0.1	91.7
Hawaii	5	1,178	0.3	82.1
Montana	2	1,087	0.2	96.0
Rhode Island	6	1,031	0.5	94.1
South Dakota	5	938	0.5	102.0
North Dakota	0	870	0.0	111.0
Delaware	1	858	0.1	83.1
Alaska	1	735	0.1	100.2
District of Columbia	5	642	0.7	94.6
Wyoming	2	607	0.3	103.9
Vermont	0	579	0.0	89.4

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

Common questions

How many Critical Care Pharmacist providers are there vs Pharmacist?

There are 728 Critical Care Pharmacist and 292,480 Pharmacist records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Pharmacist 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.